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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Can we talk ourselves into a period of business dullness?
W T e speak of it as a recession, sometimes de-flation, then re
flation, as compared with inflation. But the words are of
secondary importance.
WTien a businessman hears or reads predictions of bad
times, poor business—and all that—how does it affect him?
Apply it to yourself, each one. If a man has ten thousand
dollars for investment will he invest it when men predict
unfavorable prospects? Now the $10,000 man is just a
small businessman, but think of ten thousand men with
$10,000 each and you have quite a sum of money. We have
more than ten thousand men in our little State who have
$10,000 each for investment. That is a hundred million dol
lars—quite a tidy capital. If they invest that money it
provides work for men and women; wages, sales for stores,
money for savings which will be lent again and so continue
the good work. But if we freeze it—and if it remains
frozen, we become like a man on a very strict slimming diet,
one so lacking in essentials that the man becomes a shadow,
but isn’t able to carry even his ghostly shadow.
I’ve just read the following: “The country’s biggest busi
nessmen explored some economic ‘soft spots’ and decided
that prosperity will last into next spring at least. Members
of the Business Advisory Council of the Commerce Depart
ment reported their judgment to Secretary of Commerce
Weeks, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and a dozen
other high officials at a closed meeting.
Twelve corporation heads, representing as many key in
dustries reported their own business outlook in a round-robin
discussion intended to guide the administration on policies
which would prevent the post-mobilization ‘readjustment’
from turning into a recession. Some rise in unemployment,
a slight dip in retail activity, hotter price competition and a
moderate further decline of industrial production from its
present near-record rate, were foreseen, according to what
information could be obtained from the confidential session.
Robert E. Wood, chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was
known to expect a drop in retail sales of 2 to 10 per cent,
varying from city to city, in the next three months. He based
this forecast mainly on falling farm income and tightening
credit.
Clarence B. Randall, president of Inland Steel Co., w T as
quoted as forecasting a further moderate decline of steel
production in 1954. Steel output has fallen in the past year
from virtually 100 per cent of capacity to about 90, then re
covered some ground.
Industry leaders here have emphasized, however, that
production rates close to 100 per cent are abnormal for the
industry—especially in view of its 20 per cent expansion
since 1950. They contend that a drop to 85 per cent or
thereabouts would make for different operation without
adverse effect on industry in general. Before the BAC ses
sion opened, John F. Collyer, president of B. F. Goodrich Co.,
forecast a decline of something less than 5 per cent in rubber
consumption next year from the high 1953 level. *
Collyer, whose viewpoint was said to be typical of that
of the 90-odd businessmen here, held that such a modest de
cline would be normal and not alarming. Industry, he ad
vised, should follow a policy of caution but not pessimism.
Virtually all the members, it was reported, believed that the
economy will remain at a high level for six months or more.
Continued high government spending, a big reservior of
consumer savings, high income rates and good employment
are almost certain safeguards against a serious recession in
that period, they held.
The administration view, it was reported, is that some,
easing of the ‘rubber band stretch’ in the economy would be
healthy, rather than alarming because it would stimulate
competition and improve techniques in sales and production.
Some officials said they would not be concerned as long as
the business adjustments continue in the ‘serial’ or ‘rolling’
pattern of the past 18 months.
While textiles were going down they explained, autos and
other durable goods were on the rise; now textiles have re
covered substantially and some slippage in the durables is
reported. Unless a concerted downward movement involving
a number of major sections of the economy develops, they
said, no very serious slump can occur.”
Did you ever think of the imponderables ? Recently I read
that Americans think they can plan every detail and put up
the money and all will work out according to Hoyle, as we
say. The writer of that says that the British move along,
more or less with the current, and take advantage of any
and all favorable “breaks.” I can’t answer for the British,
nor did I think we Americans were so hide-bound, but cer
tainly all life presents, at times, the imponderables, the fact
ors not foreseen, not provided for, but powerful and some
times conclusive.
The Germans might have crossed to England, we are told.
They seemed ready and fully prepared, but something hap
pened. What was it? Did Hitler have a premonition? Was
BEWARE THE DEMON
it an urge or an inspiration? At any rate certain destruction
was averted. And when the Kaiser’s troops were within
reach of Paris, in the First World War, the great army
turned at the Marne, near Paris—why?
When I went to the Marne River and looked around I won
dered why that remarkable army turned around. It was one
of the classic questions for military men.
When Pizarro and his intrepid, though brutal, men, march
ed in to the heart of the Andean heights in Peru, the natives
under the Inca Atahualpa might have crushed them to death,
even by mere weight of numbers, but they did not. They sur
rendered. What an imponderable! Who could have forseen
it?
In our business life men have been predicting recessions
every year since 1945, eight years ago!
Why recessions? We have fifteen million more people to
feed and clothe since 1945. Fifteen million more workers
probably; fifteen million more spenders. All the basic factors
seem favorable, in an economic sense. The difficulties are
man-made.
I am not exactly a Micawber, always expecting some gold
en dream to come true, even without work. But our na
tion can stand re-adjustments without so much being said.
When big men talk they are regarded as knowing, but no
one can truly know, so it would be well to keep on an feven
keel, operating prudently, instead of rocking the boat all the
time. After all, that little squall we think we see might
turn out to be harmless. However, if we, all, get scared, we
shall make real difficulties.
Our American habit of speech-making and giving inter
views all the time has its draw-backs. Life has always been
full of ups and downs; we are accustomed to that; but the
incessant predicting may make the talker seem like a wise
man, but it may do more than tickle his vanity; it may cre
ate real difficulties, upsetting confidence and promoting
stringencies and business repressions.
Resources, research and resourcefulness made our fabu
lous America, meaning the United States. Many countries
have resources; Brazil is opulent; Mexico is potentially rich;
but their resources have not had the research of organized
science; nor have their resources been developd by a re
sourceful people.
We are not very superior to other nations, but our three
R’s count superbly, in furtherance of other sustaining fact
ors, such as basic laws, political institutions and climate.
So Hampton County is the most musical County in South
Carolina, according to Ashley Cooper, in The News & Cour
ier. Charleston, once recognized for music, painting and gen
eral culture, seems to have forsaken music unless it be the
music of song, unaccompanied. All that deduction is based
on the report that there are no musical instruments in Char
leston, although Hampton has 1710. Just how Tom O’Con
nor will play this up I don’t know, but he can now claim
music as well as watermelons.
Although I am a native of the coastal region of our State
I did not know that music was concentrated in Hampton and
Jasper Counties.
Not a music box, nor a horn, or fiddle, or piano or organ
appears on the tax books of Charleston County. And thirty
or more other counties are in the same sad plight. Hampton
and Jasper shine with the refulgence of the sun at noon.
You know, of course, that if there were a mandolin or guitar,
or even a mouth organ, it would appear on the tax books.
Charleston has twelve million dollars in merchandise on
the tax books, however, in spite of abandoning music. But
Edgefield, a county peculiarly precious to me, was in dire
straits, with only one hundred and fifty dollars of merchan
dise on the tax books, according to this same Ashley Cooper.
Of course that must be because the Edgefield and Johnston
papers are such fine advertising papers that the advertisers
sell out, down to the bone, or to the cord and wrapping paper.
Governor Byrnes speaks in support of the United Nations
organization. I can go along part of the way, but only a part.
An opportunity for the nations to meet and discuss their
general problems should be helpful, both informative and
stimulating. But I think the United Nations should be just
that and nothing more. Unfortunately the United Nations
has a vast staff of specialists meddling with every phase of
life and living, in every corner of the Universe. As a result
of that theoretical and sometimes mischievous exploration
we frequently fear for even the sanctity of our American
traditions, as well as some of our Constitutional guarantees.
The Governor may well endorse the value of friendly meet-
From The Canton Independent,
Canton, Pennsylvania: The United
States Childrens’ Bureau reported
recently that accidents kill and
injure more children than all dis
eases known to man. The Bureau
sounded a warning, which we have
offered in these columns on past
occasion, to parents of the country.
Fathers and mothers were told
to take the accident problem seri
ously and give it as much concern
as they do such diseases as polio
and tuberculosis. Until they begin
to take the problem seriously and
use preventive measures, the toll
of accidents is likely to more than
match the toll of deaths among
children from diseases of all kinds.
The report of the Bureau covered
the period between 1940 and 1949
and showed the death rate due to
accidents among children in this
period of years was reduced only
16 per cent. The death rate from
all other causes in this same period
was slashed by an impressive 45
per cent.
In this period children under one
year of age died at the rate of 72.1
deaths, more than half of them
were caused by home accidents.
The report showed that until chil
dren are between the ages of five
and nine, the greatest death threat
tc them is an accident in the home.
After that age. the greatest threat
of death comes from motor vehi
cle accidents.
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From the Sooth Pasadena Re
view. South Pasadena, California:
One of the most interesting and
amazing segments of American
economic life is small business.
Say what you will about big corpo
rations. acknowledge their vital
role, praise them for their achieve
ments. but you can’t escape the
fact that it’s the millions of little
fellows who are the very heart
of the American enterprise system.
By this we do not mean that small
business is a simple thing, some
thing easy to succeed in. Actually
it is rough, for the small merchant
or manufacturer is most quickly
affected by economic changes. If
this fact were more clearly seen
by those who want to set up a
business of their own. there would
be fewer failures. Too often, the
would-be proprietor thinks that
buying a stock of goods and open
ing the door is about all there is
to it. Too many ex-proprietors
know that isn’t so. It needs to be
said, and said often, that before
anyone launches a new business
he should thoroughly study the
field, carefully consider his own
experience and qualifications and
analyze the financial needs. It’s
well to talk to others in the same
line of business, consult with the
chamber of commerce officials,
discuss it with the local bank man
ager who is especially well equipped
to give sound advice. ,
T HE Potomac Emporium’s re
volving doors will spin more
slowly if the current trend con
tinues toward abandonment of the
federal super-market idea in favor
of specialization in the craft of
“pure” government. Gradually.
President Eisenhower and his Re
publican Congress are turning over
Uncle Sam’s manufacturing, sales
and service activities to private
enterprise, a Congressional Quar
terly survey indicates.
In the days of silk knee breeches
and for a long time thereafter,
the federal government confined
its labors primarily to fighting In
dians and coining money. In re
cent decades, spurred by war and
depression. Uncle Sam has become
the nation’s biggest business ty
coon. The circle is turning back
on itself as the controlling party
interprets President Eisenhower’s
campaign pledges to strike from
business “the great shackles that
government has fastened upon it”
and to “curb the unjustified ex
pansion of government. ”
During its first session, the 83rd
Congress ordered the sale of 28
government owned synthetic rub
ber plants to private industry, es
tablishing a negotiating commis
sion and reserving the right to
veto proposed sales. In another
sale, the government realized $9
million on its barge system, the
Inland Waterways Corporation.
Additional sales may be in the
offing. The Joint Congressional
Atomic Energy Committee has
held hearings on a bill “to promote
and encourage free competition
and private investment” in the fed
eral-monopoly field of atomic en
ergy.
Reduced appropriations curtailed
government operations in several
fields coveted by private industry,
including housing and power—the
latter through cuts in funds for
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
rural electrifications, and synthetic
fuels.
Next session. Congress is sched
uled to decide whether the Niagara
River power project will be under
taken by the federal government.
New York state, or private utili
ties.
Recognizing the importance of
credit to the economy. Congress
whittled at federal lending, creat
ing the Small Business Administra
tion to replace the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. The SBA
has less money to lend than its
predecessor, and the Administra
tor calls his agency a “last resort”
to be relied upon only when pri
vate credit it unavailable. He is
promoting a system of private
credit pools to reduce the need
for loans by the government. False
Teeth To Fur Sealing.
In June, a House subcommittee
listened sympathetically as busi
nessmen complained of federal
competition with private enterprise,
in many instances claiming they
could do the job more efficiently
and cheaply than Washington and
its field offices.
The Subcommittee listed 86 com
mercial and industrial activities
pursued by the federal govern
ment, ranging from manufacture
of false teeth through operation
of fish hatcheries tc? fur sealing.
Another committee rejected re
tailers' protests against competi
tion by military post exchanges,
and still another currently is con
sidering demands that the armed
forces stop operating aluminum
salvage plants.
In the 1954 Congressional elec
tions, the nation’s “stockholders”
will have their say on the re
trenchment policies formulated by
their Republican “board of direc
tors.” From one stump, the GOP
claims the virtues of efficiency and
individualism. Just across the fair
grounds. Democrat* cry “give
away.”
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INTELEIGRAM
Check correct word.
1. Statistics show (men) (women) live longer.
2. In 1951 the (Yankees) (Giants) won the World
Series.
3. The submarine was invented by (Holland)
(Preece).
4. (Idaho) (Wyoming) was the last state ad
mitted into the Union.
5. Florida was purchased from (France) (Spain).
6. Hitler became German Chancellor in (1932)
(1933).
7. The Yalta Conference was held in (1945)
(1947).
8. Methirsela was the son of (Enoch) (Lantech),
according to the Bible.
9. Chop suey is an (American) (Chinese) dish.
10. The tomato is a (fruit) (vegetable).
Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for each
correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average;
70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior.
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ings, but the United Nations organization as it stands, and in
all its ramifications, is a disturbing and unwholesome med
dler in the affairs of Nations.
• 1953
THURSDAY, NOV. 12,
0—Do federal judges have to be lawyers?
A—No. Article III of the Constitution does not require federal Judge*
to be attorneys. According to the Administrative Office of the U. 9.
Courts, there is no federal statute on the subject. Precedent ha«
decreed that all federal justices be attorneys, but many magistrate*
and justices of the peace—appointed or elected under local or state
law—are not attorneys.
Q—How old is our primary system of nominating candidates?
A—A popular vote system of nominating candidates for local office wa*
first adopted by Crawford County, Pa., in 1866. In 1868. New York
and California passed laws giving their states’ counties the option
of adopting the “Crawford County system.” At the present time,
only two states—Connecticut and Rhode Island—choose all state-wide
candidates by the convention method.
Q—When were U. S. Senators first elected by popular vote?
A—In the election of 1914. The 17th Amendment, providing for the direct
election of Senators, was declared ratified by the Secretary of State
(William Jennings Bryan) on May 31, 1913. From 1789 to 1914.
Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
Q—1 noticed recently that the Interparliamentary Union met. What
does the Union do?
A—Its primary purpose is the peaceful settlement of International dis
putes Formed in 1889 in Paris with nine member nations, the Union
now has 34 members. Thirty-two nations, including the U. S., were
invited to this yea'rs’ conference. The two countries uninvited wer*
Poland—the only Iron Curtain country member—and the Republic
of Spain (in exile.)
PaieCarimecie
★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING'’ . ft
A PRIL 21, 1945, the Fifth Division of the U. S. Marines was half way
up the hill to Ml Suribachi to plant, at the top. the Stars and
Stripes.
Suddenly there was a terrific explosion!! Hundreds of our young
men lay dead and bleeding. One of those boys was Gerald Burns’ son—
to him just a baby.
For six months his son lay In a hospital on Guam,
with half of his hip shot off while his father was
lonely, worried and fearful of that telegram from
the War Department. He prayed to God every day
to bring his son back safe. In December, 1945, they
put the injured lad on a boat where the temperature
was 80 degrees—and shipped him to Tientsin, China,
where the temperature was 20 below. He had a nerv
ous breakdown and spent two months out at Mercy
Wood Sanitarium. But Gerald kept on praying, never
losing faith in God.
Then one horrible night he couldn’t stand it any
longer. He was going stark mad. He cried out to God please not to
forsake him. In the darkness he reached up on his bureau to grab a
bottle of iodine. He was going to end it alL Then the telephone rang.
He didn’t have the strength to lift the receiver. It seemed as though
there was some one in the room holding it to his ear. He heard the
operator saying San Diego calling. Then he heard a voice very faintly
saying, “Hello ” It kept coming in stronger, until at last he recognized
the voice. His son was back home again. He got out of bed and switched
on the light, and raised his arm to smash the bottle on the floor, but as
his arm was half way down he felt something pricking hi* hand. He
opened the hand to find that he didn’t have the iodine in it—but a small
crucifix
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HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured 1948
Olympic
champion
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14 Dyestuff
15 Compass point
16 Rate of climb
19 Born
20 Sound
22 Canvas shelter
23 Bold
24 Rubber tree
26 Armed conflict
27 Lose blood
29 Property item
32 An (Scot.)
33 Tone £
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34 Street (ab.)
35 Preposition
36 Bootlace
38 Harmonized
40 Answer (ab.)
41 Before
42 Civil wrong
44 Horse’s gait
48 Brother of
Jacob (Bib.)
51 Arrive (ab.)
52 Son of Chaos
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54 Transposes
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57 Trustee
59 Long seat
60 Exit
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2 Nevada city
3 Thoroughfare
4 Symbol for
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5 Age
6 Pause
7 Dispatched
8 Land parcel
9 While
10 Steamships
11 Heavy blow
12 Encounter
17 Symbol for
cerium
18 Half-em
21 Substance
23 Grazing land
25 Redacts
26 Disused
27 Balance (ab.)
28 Meadow
43 Shield bearins
44 Woody plant
45 Musical note
46 Siberian rives
47 Pipe
49 War god
50 Employs
30 Summer (Fl\) 52 Dutch city
31 Fox
37 Vegetable
39 Cuddle
42 Small flaps
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