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EDITORIAL- COMMENT Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, June 30, 1945 It will take close to a generation for much of Europe to get back to pre-war conditions. At San Francisco, — though the war against Japan is raging fiercely, — scores of nations seek sincerely to devise and accept machinery which will promote international cooperation, — and help make peace possible. The machinery — Security and Economic Councils, Assembly, Stabilization Fund, International Reconstruction Bank, Mediation, World Court, some form of international restrain force, — are all im portant. Of greater importance is the adoption and im plementing of economic policies which assure domes tic prosperity, and acceptance of international obli gations. Competitive domestic economies mean inter national rivalry and war. The world cannot stay at peace with nations united politically, — and disunited economically. People with plenty and people with hope don’t want to fight, — a choice between starvation and death in battle, brings desperation. International “trusteeships” will have the same results as national “mandates” over undeveloped areas, if the purpose is the same, — to protect rich nations in exploitation of natrural resources and of unarmed peoples. We can with poor grace criticize Russia on Poland and Eastern Europe, wThile we de mand the right to maintain bases, — naval, air, and military — throughout the world. Russia knows Britain, Holland and France expect to hold their empires practically intact, after the war, with some gestures of political, not economic, liberation. She knows the purpose of the real rulers of those nations as of the United States and the determination of the Vatican, is to block the spread of such a socialized economy, as Russia has today. That explains much at San Francisco, since most of our delegation, and State Department of ficials have made it clear they fear Russia’s economic system, — more than the fascism of the Argentine! Prof. J. Anton de Haas of Harvard University stated the situation cogently in “The Christian Science Mon itor” (May 1): “If unilateral action is illegal in the military field, it must be made equally illegal in the economic field. Until this is done, no lasting peace can be es tablished, and no instrument to enforce the peace can be expected to function effectively, x x x x x “It is upon the establishing of this stable eco nomic world that our efforts should be concentrated. If our efforts in this field are even moderately suc cessful, the international police force may never be called upon to act. If our efforts fail in the economic field, then no international organization to preserve the peace is likely to prove effective. “This is a matter of the greatest urgency. The foundations for another world war already are be ing laid in the form of another period of economic warfare. The Dumbarton Oaks proposal is inade quate in that it places almost exclusive emphasis upon action to be taken when an emergency arises and fails to take cognizance of the fact that the emer gency already is upon us. “The Dumbarton Oaks proposal is good. It is very good but it is not good enough.” CROCHET A FROTHY BLOUSE TO GLAMOURIZE — fiitfirrr YOUR DARK SKIRT mm&r There’s nothing like an utterly feminine blouse to make a glamouf costume of your dark skirt. And here is that very blouse, of frothy white crochet, with crisp ruffles around the neck and sleeves. Mak* it of mercerized cotton, wash it, starch it, and wear it again and again! With your most devastating jewelry or flower accessories. Direction* for crocheting DATE MAGIC BLOUSE may be obtained by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Needlework Department of this paper, asking for Design No. 1296. . _ Cheer Room Sets Stain Paint can work wonders in a dark Age. soap, hard water, hot iron or drab room for very little cost. Soft wa^er scnerally sets a stain. If the light colors make a room more light or*Sin of the stain is unknown, and cheerful than dark, intense sPonSe with cool water or if color. greasy sponge with cleaning fluid. Lost Feed Vegetables for Army Each pig farrowed dead repre- f-*urhig the last two years, the sents the loss of 140 pounds of feed, ‘‘mouft of fresh vegetables required which is a proportionate part of the , armed forces has been quantity eaten by the brood sow. a^out 10 per cent of production. _ - _—I _I Reconversion No Great | Obstacle to Industry. Many Factories Making Consumers Goods ■ For Services; Numerous Others to j Require Only Minor Changes. j By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Reconversion has begun and it looks as if one prediction, made back when conversion had been ac complished with many an ache and groan, would come true. Then the experts predicted that reconver sion would be easier than conversion. Eighty per cent of the factories, we are now told by officials of the department of commerce, will not have to do a major reconversion job. This is largely because many indus tries now furnishing supplies to the military will continue to manufac ture the same supplies for civilians— clothing, food, printing, electrical appliances—you can think of a whole lot of others yourself. It will be no great problem for the makers of such products to shift from one mar ket to another—from Uncle Sam to John Q. Consumer. Some industries whose present final product differs considerably from the civilian goods they make won’t have such major difficulties either. It will please the ladies to learn that even the folks who have been making parachutes will have little or no trouble changing back to stockings. The nylon people sim ply have to change spools. There are a number of other pre dictions concerning the future of businesses, big and little, and one of them is that 40 per cent of the industries, although they won’t do ' the business they are doing today with Uncle Sam as a customer, will have a bigger demand to meet than they had in the boom year of 1929. And this condition will continue, say the prophets of profits, for two or three years on the impetus of the present pent-up buying power of the nation. If we keep our heads meanwhile, there is no reason why the period of prosperity cannot be extended. But what about the other types of business which were expanded by war demands for products which won’t have any civilian market? Well, our American business inge nuity and our native mechanical in ventive genius, they tell us, are go ing to step into the picture again. Then there will be the natural evo lution which will eliminate the be low-average business man and es tablish a survival of the fittest. Yankee Ingenuity To the Fore What started me off on this topic was a typical example of how this inventive genius, stimulated by war demands, has laid the foundation for turning what started as a little two-room factory into a big, small town business. The man with the inventive genius is a frequent Wash ington visitor these days. His name is Burl E. Sherrill. The name of the town is Peru, Ind., population 13,000. Sherrill is a modest Hoosier genius in his forties who managed to make a living from tinkering and selling the patents on the gadgets he invented. Then one day he made something he liked so well he didn’t want to part with the idea behind it, so he decided to manufacture it him self. It was a popular-priced mag netic compass for use in steel bodied automobiles and trucks. Sherrill rented three offices right on the public square of Peru, turned them into his factory and started out. Soon he began to expand, push ing lawyers, doctors, real estate men out of the way. But I am getting ahead of my story. Sherrill was a born inventor, al though he didn’t realize it and start ed off to study law. After two years at the University of Chicago he found that his hunger for the law was appeased, his hunger for three meals a day was not. He went to work managing a little neighborhood shoe store in Chicago. This gave him a chance to tinker in the kitch en-laboratory in his flat. Then he got a chance at a job back in In diana—repairing radios in Peru. This gave him lots of opportunity to tinker and he patented inventions and sold them, which bolstered his income considerably. Finally he evolved the compass which he wouldn’t part with. He was able to hire a small staff of workers—then came the war and no more civilian autos. But there were lots of military ve hicles and after our blind tanks had lost themselves in the African des erts, Washington found out about Sherrill and gave him the challenge of making a compass for use in mo torized equipment of various kinds. Sherrill went to work and produced his models. The Carnegie Institute, the army engineers and the war college looked them over and put their okeh on them. The inventor moved downstairs and took the whole first floor of the building on Peru’s public square. The 20 men who had assembled the auto com passes were increased to 125 working at a regular assembly line. Next came a call from the Mari time commission. A compass for steel lifeboats was needed. Like the tanks, too many had been left to wander on the high seas blind. Fur ther inventive genius was required for this job for a steel lifeboat passes much of its life on the steel deck of a ship. A few months ago the new compass was approved and pro duction is now under way. Some day, of course, the last war order will arrive at the factory in Peru, but because of the war-stimu lated ingenuity of one man, a prod uct has been created, the demand for which will continue for such war machines as are still needed plus a demand for civilian use which will return the moment restrictions on motor travel and transportation are over. In addition, I understand from Sherrill, a new hearing-aid is in the making. War a Spur to Many Entrepreneurs To reconvert to the manufacture of civilian products, no change of machinery or assembly line nor any retooling will be necessary at the Sherrill factory. Nor will the number of emplojees have to be re duced. Of course, not many inventors are endowed with enough business sense to run plants of their own. Sherrill appears to be an exception. When he got his first army order, he was asked when he could deliver how many compasses. He named the fig ure and the day and what is more he lived up to his promise, which was more than many manufacturers with less foresight and more unfore seen hurdles have been able to do. There are other inventors and oth er business men who, like Sherrill, have received from war demands the stimulation which will push them ahead and carry them through the breakers of reconversion. Sherrill himself has no technical education. He calls himself a graduate from a junkpile. But he can talk with the scientists and the experts and, what is more, he makes the pictures he draws on his drawing board, some times in the small hours in pajamas and slippers, work. He has the typical American in genuity shared by thousands of oth ers who helped win the war for us and who will keep us from losing the peace. • • * Recently a listener wrote in with a suggestion that a fitting memorial for the late President Roosevelt could be provided in a manner which would aid the bond drive. She sug gested that “if bonds were contrib uted for a memorial commensurate with our sorrow and regret, by the time these bonds matured we would be able to buy the most magnif icent memorial in the world in honor of our greatest President.” Then she concludes: "I am one of the many ‘little people* who would gladly contribute a small bond now, but may not be able to give anything later.” me psychology ol tnat suggestion is interesting. Regardless of what the purpose of a fund might be, what a splendid way of raising it and thus achieving exactly what the govern ment wishes to achieve by the sale of bonds: the double purpose of se curing cash to defray war expenses and also reducing the amount of in flationary pocket-money. It struck me as such a good idea that I sent it along to Ted Gamble who is in charge of such matters in connection with the Seventh War loan. Next to making suggestions for selling bonds I suppose one of the best things one can do is buy them. Of course if everybody fol lowed that horse-sense plan and bought, simply for the security of their own future, the treasury wouldn’t need any suggestions. BARBS . . . by B aukhage An official navy bulletin included this warning: “Navy personnel are not allowed to transport monkeys to or from India.” • • • The government has moved west from the Hudson, one congressman commented. Fine so long as it doesn’t stop when it gets to the Mississippi. This is a very wide counirv Varnishing Floor Wood surfaces which have never been varnished, and which have had considerable service are practical ly certain to have become more or less discolored, at least in spots. If they are to be coated with clear varnish, such surfaces should be well sandpapered, until the color tone is even, and the varnish then applied. Sale of horse meat is reported on the increase. If that’s the case we’d better end this gasoline shortage soon. • • • A medal was recently awarded to a high officer for saving the life of a woman by stopping a runaway horse 20 years ago. Which shows he was faster at catching up with what he was after than his medal Paper Material Bamboo may prove to be a valu able raw material for the manufac tjire of paper and good quality com position board. Government plant explorers began bringing in bam boos from the Orient and other parts of the world about 50 years ago, and there are now many small plantings of good varieties on American farms in the South. Commercial investi gators are studying the processing of the culms (stems) into paper and boards, with results good enough to be called encouraging. ■■ ■■■! ■■■■■■■ | The HOME TOWN REPORTER in Washington ••MUJlimEHMMML. This Concerns Every Citizen WNU Washington Bureau 0 621Union Trust Building. ASHINGTON today is a vast stage upon which events of national and international moment crowd themselves with lightning J rapidity and with kaleidoscopic clarity. They are events and pro posals which have ramifications af fecting the lives and destinies, one way or another, not only of our own people in the cities and hometowns in America, but of people every where. And we criticize our congressmen • • . gripe at our governmental agen cies freely and often, but, as a mat ter of fact, it is amazing that with the quickening and increasing tempo of affairs here, the men and women in government keep abreast of the times and the respon sibilities with which they are faced as well as they do. Just within the last few days . . . Victory for the Reciprocal Trade ex tension in the house and its defeat by a senate committee . . the overwhelming vote of confidence in world cooperation by the house action of Bretton Woods . . . the streamlining plans for the Veter ans administration by General ! Bradley . . . the President's vic tory in the Russian empasse at San Francisco . . . the Truman pro posal for temporary unemployment compensation during the reconver sion era . . . the modernization of the governmental set-up as planned . . . the Murray-Wagner-O’Mahoney full-time employment bill . . all these are a few examples. And now the Wagner - Murray - Dingle bill which will affect the lives of ev ery man, woman and child in every hometown and rural community in America. It completely overhauls, enlarges and federalizes the present social se curity law, bringing under its pro visions an additional 15,000,000 farm ers, farm laborers, domestic em ployees, small merchants, profes sional men and women, seamen and employees of non-profit organiza tions BILLIONS INVOLVED The new measure, a bulky, 185 page document, carries with it ap propriations which will run into bil lions of dollars. The section on hos pitals and health centers alone calls for $950,000,000 over a 10-year period. That it will meet with deter mined opposition is a foregone con clusion, for it attempts to national ize all provisions of the present act, except medical and public as sistance, taking over old age and survivors insurance and unemploy ment compensation from the states and placing those features ex clusively in the hands of the fed eral government. Rates to employers are increased from the average of 314 per cent they are now paying to 4 per cent to finance all the insurance features, and employees would pay approxi mately 3 per cent more than they are paying under the present law but are given greatly expanded pro tection. The farmer is entitled to all the provisions of the bill except un employment compensation and tem porary disability insurance. He would get medical aid, old age and survivors insurance and disability insurance for which he would pay 5 per cent on his net income up to $3,600. He would make his payments quarterly or semi-annually. If the farmer has a hired hand, he would deduct 5 per cent of his net income for transmissal to the government, and records would be kept through the use of stamps to be issued for the purpose, eliminating any book keeping. The same method would be used by the small business man. He would pay on his net income up to $3,600 at the same rate, and if he has one or more employees not now receiv ing benefits of the social security law, he would deduct their percent ages and issue stamps to the em ployees to eliminate bookkeeping. In some states from one to eight employees are not now covered by the social security law. DOMESTIC HELP AIDED. Domestic help would come under the same provisions. If you have a maid, a cook, a washwoman, you would deduct the proper percentage from her pay on pay-day and pre sent her with stamps for her book issued for the purpose. Professional men such as doctors, lawyers, den tists, veterinarians etc., also be come eligible for the benefits under the law with a cost of 5 per cent on net income up to $3,600. Briefly, the provisions of the new bill provide: 1. A program of federal grants and loans for construc tion of hospitals and health cen ters especially in rural areas. 2. It broadens the present fed eral grants - in - aid for public health service up to 75 per cent of amounts expended by the states. 3. Expands the community wide maternal and child-health and welfare service, the federal government paying up to 75 per cent of amount expended by the states. Horse Shortage Horse buyers declare that the United States faces its worst short age of equine farm motive power. Castor Oil Castor oil is important for its quick-drying, water-resistant and plasticizing qualities. Rnral Electricity Of 43,663 farms in Idaho, a total of 32,231, or 74 per cent, have electric service. 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FOUR MILLION WORKERS, INCLUDING 1.500,000 YOUTHS ANO 75QOOO WOMEN ARE NEEDED TO MEET THIS YEAR'S WAR-TIME FOOD PRODUCTION GOALS.* TAKE A SUMMER JOB ON A FARM.* "I once PAID 5 BUCKS FDR BREAKFAST" “r | iHAT’S RIGHT—5 U. S. Government green A backs—for a meal that’d cost maybe 50£ at home. Overseas, I’ve seen what happens when prices start going crazy! “That’s why I’m glad the way folks at home are keeping prices down. My wife and kids have to get along on my allotment—and every penny counts. So won’t you keep on watching every penny you spend. A penny over ceiling prices is a booby trap. It can blow the cost of living sky-high.” Patriotic grocers post OPA ceiling price lists. Check them. Pay only ceiling prices! Watch the OPA ceiling price lists In the stores, and pay no more! Discuss any mistakes with your grocer! \ mTCH fHt EXTRA PEHHIES... ntm TXAPS'’ \ 'PLEDGED TO * £ ^ , Y: kee?n.icEs 4T r - down . „ y ' ■ f GC-15(3CoU v-- - -- Chocolate Substitute Home economists of the U. S. de partment of agriculture remind homemakers that three tablespoons of cocoa plus one teaspoon of table or cooking fat can be sub stituted in most recipes for a one-ounce square of chocolate. First Post Fort Laramie national monument in eastern Wyoming, the first per manent settlement of white men in the state, was the first and for a score of years the most important military post of the west. Light Scorch Light scorch in clothing may bleach out if dampened and left in sunlight for a long time. Deep scorch cannot be removed. Fresh Plaster Fresh plaster inside the house should be permitted to dry thor oughly before paint is applied on the exterior. There is always a danger that the sun will draw moisture from the plaster through the wood and cause blistering and peeling of the paint film. V For U Use of V was adopted because the letter is better adapted to en graving in stone than the cursive or flowing U and is considered more formal and dignified. It also is a sur vival of the time when both were forms of the same letter, the earlier form being V. Eggs Nutritious Eggs are protective, rich in vita mins, proteins and minerals. Serv ing eggs in some form every day is good meal planning and excellent nutrition.
