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WASHINGTON. — People do not seem to understand the meaning of “inflation,” which is being raised as a spectre behind the daily news of strikes, wage debates and govern ment economic planning. No one in this country has seen an inflation walking, or I should say, running. Adults with memories may recall it as something which happened in Germany after the last war, when a bushel basket of money was necessary to buy a meal. But in general the news debate treats it as an infinite kind of prospect with out dimensions, a sert of economic hell they know can happen, yet they cannot picture it. The kind of inflation talked about now, should be easy to un derstand thoroughly. We have gone far enough toward it to make the landmarks visible. It is unlike any which has gone be fore in history, because pri marily it is a price inflation. In Germany, the wreckage of the money system and the bankruptcy of the country, brought the condi tion in which a glass of beer cost 100 marks or so. In other countries, such as China, a depleted treasury already has brought comparative in flation. We are not bankrupt and our treasury took in 45 billion dol lars last year. Ours is an inflation of prices directly. We have a short age of goods, all goods, due to war wastes, increased consumption and free distribution of our supplies around the world. The cost of many things already has doubled since be fore the war. WILL REFUSE TO BUY Now the unions want a 30 per cent wage increase in this time of a goods shortage. However much they get of their demand, prices will be increased at least that much and probably more. My experience as a consumer in this brave new eco nomic world has convinced me that all that is needed to increase prices is an excuse. If a man can sell his goods for an ever increasing price, he will do it. If he controls a sellers’ market such as we have now where people pay anything asked, he would be superhuman if he did not resist both the loose government regulations and conscience, if any. But the course of upward wage jumps and upward price jumps will run, as soon as the shortage of goods is over, into buyer resentment. The wage- price inflationary spiral in evitably must encounter the day when people will not buy. Indeed there necessarily must be a day when they cannot pay the price if they would, because the wages of no other class have increased as have the wages of union labor. We are getting to the point where we can s,*>- the people Trill close their pocket- books and strike or will have to strike in the economic sense, purchasing only that which is necessary. Then the house will fall down. The spiral will collapse with a thud. De clining demand will cause declining production unemployment — depres sion. From then on the depression can go many ways. The government cannot collect even 35 billion dol lars or a fraction of it from a coun try in the throes of depression. De clining business brings declining tax receipts. The government can hard ly borrow on top of a 300 billion dollar war debt for deficit fi nancing to promote another gigantic spending program to save the situ ation. It would probably start the print ing presses and bring to its final logical conclusion the bankruptcy of the nation, because this is the only thing it could do. In this process everyone who has anything of value from a bank account to a bond would lose it or suffer a terrific depre ciation of anything he was able to hold through the crisis. But those who have nothing of value would suffer more severely, for it is reasonable to expect the starvation here that every other nation in similar circumstances has encountered. Then would come dictatorial so cialism. It would have to be a dic tatorship because the world knows no other way to handle people who will not behave of their own ac cord. It would have to be socialism because this is the common political method today of handling nations in bankruptcy. The Truman administration has been working behind its doors the last week trying to get a wage poli cy upon which to base solutions, but has found it hard to do. Labor Sec retary Schwellenbach thought we had one in the oil settlement, but after the bricks started falling upon his head for that one, he crawled out of the pile with an aching head, aware, he had made a mistake. After all, if you give the men a 15 per cent increase and then grant them the right to negotiate or arbi trate for another 15 per cent, you have not solved much. WHEN THE DOCTOR COMES MARCHING HOME It will be nice to phone a doctor’s office again and find he is not in Eu rope, Asia or Africa. * So many physicians were taken into the war that the chances have been at least four to one that when you went to one’s office you would , see a sign “Out to Global War, Re turn Ultimately” on the door. The few doctors left at home were harder to see than a world series. • The lines were almost as long, and some patients arrived the night be fore and sat on soap boxes all night in order to get in first in the morn ing. * Patients had to wait so long for their turn, even when they got in side the house, that they often out grew the original ailment and de veloped new symptoms during the wait. * If a patient didn’t have high blood pressure when he entered a doc tor’s office he had it by the time he left. * These were tough years for hypo chondriacs. When they imagined j they were sick they also had to i imagine they could get a physician. * It was tough on the doctors too. They were as overworked as sub way guards in a rush hour. Their one regret was that they were un able to feel four pulses at a time. • Many a medico was in worse shape than the patients. One of the laughs of wartime was a doctor tell ing a patient “You’re working too hard. You’ve got to take it easy.” « When you finally got out of the waiting room and into a doctor’s of fice you were brushed off faster than a man on a revolving floor. You left too dizzy to remember what he said. He was too dizzy to remember what was wrong with you. • It was nothing unusual to have a doctor greet you with “What is your ailment? I’ll give you ten seconds.” • Personally we were in a tough spot; five of our six doctors were in Asia. We always try to keep a second string team, but they were away, also. The only one left looked so run down we couldn’t bear to see him. But one day we dropped in. “What’s the matter with you?” he asked. “I’m a nervous wreck,” we replied. “From what?” he asked. “From watching you try to handle your business," we replied. * Then we gave him seme pills he had once prescribed for us, told him he looked terrible and warned him to take it easy or he might need medical attention. • • • EASILY SATISFIED (With Apologia) Man wants but little here below— A shorter day and longer dough— A streamlined home with gadgets new— A limousine and beach car, too; The latest television set— A carefree attitude on debt— A swimming pool in blue or pink— And lots of room to sit and think. A town house and a little place Out in the country, just in case— A motor boat for summer time— And winter in a warmer clime— A “walkout” every little while To work oil that attack of bile— A banner to tote here and there Proclaiming “This Shop Is Unfair.” Some people’s wants are extra high—' They seek the pie up in the sky: I merely seek to get my share With just a little bit to spare; Some seek the apple and the core— For tip-top blessings they would war; I’ll be contented if I net As much as the directors get. • • • The International Ladies’ Gar ment Workers plan their own radio stations. The United Auto Workers and the CIO Clothing Workers have similar projects. This alarms us. It may mean an aerial picket line .which radio addicts will have to cross in order to reach Jack Benny or Gabe Heatter. • • • If President Truman succeeds in plowing a straight furrow in Wash ington he will be the first man ever to do it on a merry-go-round. » • • In a milk strike we assume the strikers always threat! n to stay out till the cows come home. • • • From Harrisburg, 111., comes a report that the old fashioned wooden barrel is coming back. Fine. The way things are point ing in this country, it is good to know they will be available for street wear again. • • * LET DOWN A restful life has come with Peace; No pressur” speed or baiters— Hold everything. Here come the guys Who sell refrigerators. —Pier. IkoJlome Rep&iteb in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Corrotpondoot WNU Washington Bureau, If If Ere St.. N. W. Government’s Job Way back in the second adminis tration of President Cleveland there was a severe drouth in the Middle- West. Farmers did not even have seed corn. So the congress passed a bill providing for the distribution of seed corn to the farmers. Presi dent Cleveland vetoed the bill and sent it back to congress with a strong veto message wherein he stated that the government of the United States was set up to be sus tained by the people of the United States and not to sustain the people of the United States. That fallacy in the concept of our federal government was enunciated a half century ago, and yet in this conservative congress in the year 1945 there are some who still adhere to that archaic belief . . . that it is not the business of government to help the people of this country . . . that it is not even the business of government to adopt a policy of gov ernment guaranteeing the people anything. This attitude on the part of some senators was definitely apparent in the debate on the so-called full em ployment bill when the opponents, led by Senator Taft (R., Ohio) were able to emasculate the language of the bill to such an extent that it is more or less meaningless as it went over to the house. ‘The Right to Work’ The original bill, as it was intro duced by Senators Murray (D., Mont.) and Thomas (D., Utah) con tained this language: “All Ameri cans able to work and seeking work have the right to useful, remunera tive, regular and full-time employ ment. . . .” Senator Taft questioned this “right” of these Americans and declared, in effect, that it was not the business of this government to guarantee that right by any law. And of course the answer is that under the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights ... if Americans do not have the right to work they have no rights. It finally came down to a point in the debate that the Ohioan conceded we possibly did have the right, but it was no business of government to set that right up as a governmental policy, and so the splitting of hairs began. Columnists, radio commentators, senators, congressmen, lobbyists have taken up the cry, “where did this bill come from?” “what does it propose to do?” “what’s behind the measure?” and, “what does it actu ally mean?” and other questions. Insofar as this reporter can learn, the full employment bill is backed not only by this government, but by 50 governments throughout the world and was drawn up pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Interna tional Labor Organization’s conven tion at Philadelphia in May of 1944, which sponsored full employment as an objective of government. Backed by SO Nation* Senator Thomas was an American delegate to that international con vention. Labor and governmental delegates from 50 nations were pres ent. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The full employment bill, then, is this government’s at tempt to give expression to that con cept of government as committed at the Philadelphia convention. In his testimony before the Banking and Currency committee of the Senate, Senator Thomas said: “The declaration of Philadelphia was in reality the first serious study to try to bring about that condition which is promised in the “four free- Boms”—a condition which would make freedom from want a real freedom. In the declaration at Phil adelphia there were many theories and many different ideas sponsored but among those ideas was the idea of sponsoring the concept of full em ployment as an objective of govern ment.” As a matter of fact guaran teeing a person the right to a job is not new in our government. That guarantee is given to re turning veterans in the Selective Service act . . . that they get their old job back. The whole civil service system is builded upon that same guarantee of gov ernment; the unemployment compensation act is also attuned to the right of a man to work; many of the new laws, including the act governing disposal of Surplus Property, which start off with the words, “in order to pro mote full employment etc.,” are tied in with the right to work. Aid to Private Enterprise The point is that whether the con gress says a man has the right to ' work or not, the fact is, that in this country he does have that right, and the important sections of the full employment bill are those sections which set up the machinery for pro viding full employment . . . the an nual national survey by the Presi- .t . . . the incentives offered pri- ate industry to expand, to provide jobs, placing the responsibility, il you please, on private enterprise to bring about full employment. SERVICE EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street^ N. W. 9 Washing- ton, D. C. # is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Surplus Property Sales Best §ods Don’t use too much soap. A fads about two inches thick has proven best for washing clothes clean. DON’T SUFFER with colds’ muscle aches and sore throat enjoy quick relief. Get St. Joseph’Aspiria*. world's largest seller at 10c. Big 100 tab let sise only 35c. Get St. Joseph Agririn. TIRED, ACHY MUSCLES .Sprains Strain* * Bruises * Stiff Joints WAdt (foa //E£D td. SLOAN'S LINIMENT The Advertisements Mean a Saving to Yon Sweeping revision of surplus prop erty regulations in favor of World War II veterans has been announced by W. Stuart Symington, adminis trator, after a personal investigation which indicated that some disposal agencies were giving veterans “the run-around.” The changes include elimination of the $2,500 limit on preferential pur chases and within reasonable amounts, there will be no limit; Permission for a veteran entering the retail business to purchase an initial stock of goods for resale. Hitherto, under interpretation of the G.I. bill, a veteran could buy mate rials to establish a store, but could not obtain preference on stock for sale; Permission for veterans to deal di rectly with disposal agencies such as the department of commerce and Reconstruction Finance corpor ation ; Special permission for veterans to buy automotive or other equipment required by his employment. It is said that few autos are available, however; Provision that credit may be ex tended to veterans under terms and conditions established by the dis posal agency which sells the goods. Thus, it will be possible for veter ans to obtain loans from commerce department and RFC as well as the Smaller War Plants corporation. Information now is that the RFC wilf soon take over all disposal from the commerce department, which only recently assumed sale of con sumer goods from treasury. Questions and Answers Q. When my twin brother entered the service he designated me beneficiary of his insurance. After a hasty marriage he made, he in formed me and my parents he had not and bad no intention of chang ing the beneficiary. After his death I was notified by the insurance de- 1 partment that I was his beneficiary. His wife has made some sort of claim for the insurance a ad has held up settlement for 16 months. Can anyone but the Insured change the beneficiary or can the insurance department decide who is to get it?—J. F. K., Palo Alto, Calif. A. No one can change the benefi ciary but the insured. If you are named the beneficiary in the policy, then you are entitled to the insur ance and the Veterans administra tion says the wife or no one else can hold it up 16 minutes. File your claim for the insurance with the Vet erans administration. Q. With reference to sale of gov ernment surplus property and the $2,500 amount sold to an individual, I am much interested in further de tails on this matter and any infor mation relative to location of these surplus property boards will be much appreciated.—J. A. V., Bing ham, Mont. A. The $2,500 limit has recently been removed. Your nearest Small er War Plants Board is at Boise, Idaho, 210 Capital Securities Bldg. Your nearest department of com merce board is at Denver, Region Nine, 1030 15th street. Suggest you write to these boards for further de tails. Q. I want to know if a man 27 years old, who has been in the navy almost two years and has two kids, the oldest four years and the baby can’t walk, can get a discharge on this condition soon.—Wife, Coweta, Okla. A. No, the minimum number of navy points for enlisted personnel as of November 1 is 41 points. From your letter, your husband has only about 36 points, if he has had no overseas duty. Q. My husband is a seaman in the navy. I have asked assistance of the Red Cross to pay my hospital bill for an operation. They said “No” and recommended the Navy Relief. I wrote them stating conditions; their answer was to loan me the money until I could work to pay it back. Wasn’t I entitled to medical care?—Mrs. E. D., Taylorville, N.C. A. The navy department says you were definitely entitled to medical care if you applied to the navy med ical dispensary before your op eration. Suggest you apply to the nearest medical dispensary and they will inform you as to your stat us. Q. I was discharged from the navy under honorable conditions. The discharge reads, “BuPers-Bu- Med Joint Ltr.” Could you please teil me what this means?—R. J. A., Hawthorne, Calif. A. It means Bureau of Personnel- Bureau of Medics Joint Letter, the authority under which your dis charge was given. Q. Is it true if a boy enlists in the navy reserve at 17, that he is automatically released one day preceding his 21st birthday?—Mrs. E. R. M., Tule Lake, Calif. A. The navy department says yes. When raw winds cut like a knife... CHAPPED LIPS SOOTHED QUICHY! A cracked lip—so cruel and painfull Caused when raw, bitter weather dries skin cells, leaves them “thirsty.” Skin becomes sore—may crack and bleed. Soothing Mentholatum acta medicinally: (1) Gently stimulates the local blood supply to the "sore” area. (2) Helps revive "thirsty” cell* so they can retain needed moisture. 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