Entered as Second Class Matter 15, 1927, at the Post
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March 3 1879. _
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Dinner Paib, Dividend Checks
and Tax Bills of Every Individual National and Inter
national Problems Inseparable from Local \\ elfare.
Late in June, the Federal Reserve Board released its
third annual Survey of Concumer Finances. This study, which
is prepared by a University of Michigan research center, is
designed to find out what typical families want to buy, how
their finances shape up, what they think of the economic
future, etc. It is based on interviews with several thousand
“spending units”—a spending unit being defined as a graup
of people living under one roof whose incomes are pooled.
According to a Business Week breakdown of the survey,
“if consumers make good their intentions, 1948 is going to be
even bigger than 1947 in purchases of houses, automobiles,i
and other durable goods. Two years of postwar production
have made no dent you can see in the backlog of demand.
For example—the waiting market for automobiles is in the
8 billion dollars barcket; housing expenditures may run as
high as 19 billion dollars; consumers who want furniture,
washing machines and other durable goods apparently are
ready to spend between 3 billion and 4 billion dollars before
the dawn of 1949.
Some obvious qualifications must enter into consideration
of these findings. The interviews were taken during the first
two months of the year, and in the time that has ensued there
may have been changes in thedesires and te financial positions
of many potential buyers. Of peraps greater moment, even if
' consumers are still able and willing to buy they anticipated
months ago, all of the goods will not be available. The market
for automobiles, for instance, may approach four and half
million units. The industry can’t produce that many this
■ year, and some of its top men think it may be late 1950 before
it will be possible to walk into a showroom and pick a car
of one’s choice off the floor. Also, it does not look as if new
housing construction will be able to come anywhere near
meeting the demand for a considerable time to come. The
other durable goods—radios, appliances, etc.—are in good sup
ply, though it is not always possible to immediately find some
particular make and model.
In any event, buying is naturally conditioned on pur-*
chasing power. Here the situation remains bright. The survey
found that two-thirds of the spending units still had a liquid
backlog—though it was not so large as in 1947. And there'kas
been a noticeable increase in installment purchasing.
One of the most interesting phases of the survey was
concumer opinion of what lies ahead, both for themselves and
for the nation as a whole. Twenty-seven per cent expect that
their income, will be larger a year hence, 38 percent anticipate
no particular change, and only 10 per cent look for a drop,
with the balance uncertain. This is a somewhat more optimis
tic outlook than was found in similar surveys sponsored by
the Federal Reserve Board in 1947 and 1946.
On the subject of the general outlook, 47 per cent forsee
good times, 19 per cent little or no change, and 26 per cent
are afraid that bad times are coming. Thist ooo represents
a brighter point of view than in the preceding surveys.
The survey takes into account spending units at all the
principal levels. As is to be expected, the reactions varied;
greatly between lower level and upper level income groups.
As compared with the previous year, the over $5,000 units
showed a heavy increase in projected purchasing. In the under
$2,000 groups, on the other hand, there was a very heavy
decline. This is the inevitable result of the continued rise in
prices.
All in all, hoever, the survey supports the widely held
opinion that the period of high purchasing power wit near
peak employment is here to stay for a while. When people
Avith money are unable to buy new cars, they will buy used
ones. If they find new housing scarce or too expensive, they
will bolster the old-home market. And many of them say they
are prepared to pay still higher prices than obtained now.
This and all comparable surveys are necessarily based on
a short-term outlook. No one is willing to stick his neck out
on what may happen over a period o f some years.There has
been a steady decline in family savings, most marked in the
middle and low income groups. Even so, the country’s savings
backlog is extremely high, so the drop hasn’t occasioned too
much worry as yet.
WHAT THE OIL INDUSTRY HAS DONE
Is the oil industry, which served us so magnificently dur
ing the war and is performing an equally tough job now, an
ogre that should be destroyed? The readers of a recent book
written by a group of university professors may think it is.
There teachers advocate a policy of breaking up and reorgan-*
izing the industry, the ultimate result of which could only be
nationalization.
In the light of that, it might be a good idea to briefly
examine the industry’s record.
First of all, how has it treated the consumer? Since 192G,
according to government figures, the average wholesale price
of all commodities has risen more than G2 per cent; the price
of oil products has risen 12 per cent. By contrast, the gasoline
tax has jumped some 1400 per cent since 1920.
How has oil dealt with labor? The figures show that its
workers are very well paid, and that working conditions have
been exellent. No large industry has been more free from
strikes and labor-managent disputes.
Is oil a monopoly? Thousands of companies are doing
busi.ies. New ones are appearing all the time. The consumer
has a choice of hundreds of advertised brand names, every
one of which must compete for trade with all the others.
Is oil doing its job? The answer to that oil that oil has
met a record postwar demand, which no one could have an
ticipated. with only minor dislocations of the supply-demand
relationship. And output will be 8 per cent greater thi^ year
than last. *
To sum it all up, oil is free enterprise at its best.. It
typifies efficiency and economy in its operation. To destroy
the industry as it is now constituted would work irreparable
harm on this country and the world.
OMAHA CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
The Omaha Chamber of
Commerce-sponsored trip to
the Open House at the Fort j
Randall, S. D., dam site next
Thursday, July 22nd, is still
gaining popularity in Missouri
River basin communities.
During the past week, thirty
more persons have added their
names to the growing list of
reservations, bringing the total
to 130.
The journey will be made by
special train via the Milwaukee
railroad, sponsored by the
Flood Control committe of the
Omaha Chamber. The Open
House day at the site is spon
sored by the Army Engineers
to acquaint residents of the
Missouri Basin with the value
of work being done to control
the river’s turbulent waters.
Ssonsors of the Omaha train'
originally intended to limit re
servations to 125, but R. H.
Heinecamp, manager of the
Chamber’s transportation de
partment, said that an extra
pullman has been added to the
train to handle the overflow.
“From now on,” he said, Sve
can take all that want to go.”
Already virtually every in
dustry and major business firm
in Omaha have arranged to
send delegates. There also will
be contingents from Lincoln,
Columbus,, Nebraska City and
Minden, Nebr., Council Bluffs,
Iowa, and St. Joseph, Mo.
The train will leave Omaha
at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, July
21, arriving at the dam site at
approximately 8 a.m., July 22.
The train will leave again at
about 3 p.m. Thursday, arriv
ing back in Omaha about mid
night.
The delegation will travel
in air-conditioned cars with a
special diner. Round trip fare,
including lower Pullman berth
and parlor seat on return, and
meals, will be $31.50. Reserva
tions may be made with G. A.
Henkens, General Agent of the
Milwaukee Passenger Depart
ment at 1611 Farnam, or the
Omaha Chamber’s Transpor
tation Department.
A crowd of nearly 10,000
persons is expected to visit
the dam during the one-day
celebration.
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
VOLUNTEER TELLS
OF HER WORK
Los Angeles, July 20—Spec
ial—Social work in predomin
ately Negro districts isn’t just
for the Communists, Mary
Houston insists. It’s for any
one generous enough to try it.
It’s for Mary Houston.
Mary, an American Catholic
girl whose home is in Los
Angeles, is a graduate of Berk
eley. She does settlement work
at Friendship House in New
York’s Negro district, Harlem.
Friendship House is an or
ganization founded by the Bar
oness Catherine de Hueck,
Volunteer works there protest
against segregation by living
among the Negroes them
selves.
“All you have to do to meet
a Negro on a friendly basis is
to realize that he’s not differ
ent from you,” Mary tells her
white friends. Friendship
House makes this knowledge
possible by providing recrea
tion room, library, and outside
activities at no expense to the
recipients.
The workers are not 'bound
by vows (solemn, life-long
promises made to God), but
they willingly practice the
spirit of hoi}' poverty, earning
by their generous work only
board, room, and a meager five
dollars a month.
\v e have 10 on our staff,”
Mary explains, “and we try to
limit ourselves to what the av
erage family living on relief
gets a week.
“Our checks have bounced
more than once,” she admits,
'but Providence always man
ages to come through with
help. Even our staff gets any
clothes they neeed from the
settlement dispensary.”
Before she began her work
as a member of the Lay Apos
tolate, Mary taught in the Po
mona school system. During
•the war, she served overseas
with the Red Cross for twenty
two months. It was shortly af
ter she returned home that she
joined the Barones organiza
tion.
“Friendship Flouse groups
come into a city only at the in
vitation of the local hierarchy”
Miss Houston emphasized.
“Once established, we try, by
means of publications, speak
ers, and personal contacts to
teach white Catholics that be
cause of the doctrin of the
Mystical Body, they are actu
ally closer to a baptized Negro
than to an unbaptized white
person.”
Besides the New York settle
ment, workers like Mary also
staff Chicago’s South Side
House, and St. Joseph’s Farm
in Marathon, Wis., which op
erates as a school for training
volunteers in interracial tech
niques^
All that is done for the Ne
gro is done for Christ. Mary
Houston is a real Christian.
THREE RACES, '
5 NATIONALITIES
Fribourg, Switzerland, July
20—Priests of three races and
five nationalities joined in of
fering outdoor solemn Mass
at the climax of a pilgrimage
for peace to the Shrine of No
tre Dame des Marches ((Our
Lady of the Limits) 20 miles
from here.
The celebrant was white,
the deacon Negro and the sub
deacon a member of the yellow
race. The master of ceremon
ies was Irish, the censor bear
er American, the acolytes
Spanish and Italian. The ser
mon was preached by a French
man.
The congregation included
150 students of the University
of Fribourg representing four
continents and 14 countries.
They made the pilgrimage on
foot to petition Our Lady for
peace on God’s terms—prayer
and penance.
The Shrine of Our Lady of
the Limits is in the Canton of I
Fribourg in the Alps in a won
derland of natural beauty, and
is more than 300 years old.
The name is variously held
to refer to the frontier of an
ancient earldom, to the terrain
which is a sort of European
“Lands End,” and to marches
that once stood nearbby.
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