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PRICES TAKE WING
If you think prices are high now, you just “aint seen nothin'
>et!”
Such, in substance, was the statment last week of Miss Harriet
Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administra
tion, who talked about higher prices yet and warned consumers
of inflation which is “just around the corner” unless federal price
control legislation can ward it off.
Wholesale food prices and prices of other farm products are
cn the increase much more rapidly than in the first two years
of the first World War, Miss Elliott declared.
In the first two years of the hrst war. Miss Elliott stated, rood
prices went up 18,4 percent. In the first two years of this war,
food prices have gone up 29 percent.
Farm products went up 12.6 percent in the first two yearp of
the last war, but this time thy have increased 48.1 percent.
On the other hand, textile prices went up 43.6 percent in the
first two years of the last war and have increased but 2B.6 per '
cent during the past two years. And building materials increased
in price 27.2 percent the first two years of the first war and have
gone up only 16.7 percent in a like period this war.
Referring to wholesale prices. Miss Elliotte listed a few item*
which we all buy and showed how these prices to dealers have
increased.
For instance, overalls last month were 35 percent higher at
wholesale houses than in 1939. Work trousers at wholesale were
4ip 37 percent. Wool rugs were up 23 percent. Sheets, up 42 per
cent. Butter, up 48 percent. Canned pinik salmon, up 52 percent
Dried beans, up 76 percent.
In many cases, the full impact of these higher wholesale pric»
es may not yet have reached the retail buyer. But no tiling can
be clone now to prevent retail prices from zooming and taking
the cost of living sky-high with them. The retailer who has paid
the o higher wholesale prices can not sell at his o d prices and
stay in business.
Government officials say our hope of keeping the inflation
wolf from stealing our bank accounts lies in federal price con
trol. They may be right, but the situation seems to ca 1 for more
ti :i just an arbitrary setting of ceiling prices. Some commod
ity’s were selling at figures which brought producers a much
snia le>- margin i f profit than the profits being earned by their
neighbors who wore producing other items, before the present war
boom started. These things must be taken into consideration
fore any limit is placed in the increase allowed in prices now
above prices two years ago.
Then, too, if the federal government gets no more coopera
tion from some industrial and labor groups in price control than
has been received in the defense program, price control may be
came a long, slow process, with many more price increases before
prices are stabilized.
THF WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pear.' >n and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON —A good bar
ometer of the Duke and Wallie's
standing at the British Embassy
as the fact that newsreel men
were ordered to take no pictures
of the duchess either in the em
bassy, or any part of tire build
ing showing in the background.
And it took the Duke himself
to countermand the order. As the
newsreel men were setting up
thir apparatus far back on the
lawn, he brushed aside a young
embassy diplomat who was hand
ling arrangemtns and declared:
'‘I'll take care of this myself.
I'm an old hand at newsreels.
I’ve been in them so often.’
He then informed the camera
men that they could take a shot
of himself and the Duchess walk
ing out of the embassy into the
yard. The young diplomat back-,
ed off in confusion.
Despite the awkwardness of!
the situation, the Duke put on a
cheerful front, chatting freely
with the photographers between
retakes. Once he said: “I dont
think I’ve got on the right kind
of tie. I know you fellows like
to focus on a tie and this one
isn't bright enough.”
He wore a conservative two
tone blue cravat, with diagonal
stripes.
As the newsreel men were
winding up their work, the
young diplomat tried to square
by suggesting that the Duchess
have something to say for the,
sound tracks. But the Duke gave
him another brush-off.
“I'm going to do al lthe talk
ing,” he said crisply.
DELAYS TO RUSSIA
There were two inside reasons
for the slowness of the U. S. mis-^
»iou tu Moscow iii sitting down
at the conference table with Joe
Stalin. One was the technical
difficulty of the flight across Ger
many. The other was China.
The flight from London to Mos
"ow is not the easiest thing in
[he world since about a thousand
miles is across enemy territory.
The British bombers which make
the flight use as much of the
night as possible over German
territory and also go up to tre
mendous a'tifudt's.
The U. S. mission to Moscow
also had to fly in sections—three
differetn planes, flown on differ
ent days, with the time of depar
ture kept a dark secret. And the
last sections were delayed in Lon
don.
The Chinese delay of the mis
sion to Moscow occurred before
Averill Harriman left Washing
ton, when it was proposed that
China, nearest friendly neighbor
to Russia, should sit in with
Harriman, Stalin and the others.
But the States Department ob
jected —and for a highly unex
pected reason. Appeasement -
minded diplomats inside the
State Department claimed that a
Chinese mission to Moscow
would offend Japan. The United
States was trying to woo Japan
away from the Axis, they argued
and so nothing must be done to
rub the Japaesen fur the wrong
way.
In the end, Japan reaffirmed
its partnership in the Axis; but
only after the U. S. mission to
Moscow already had started, also
after Nazi victories in Russia
seemed on the upgrade once
again. So the appeasement policy
of the State Department got no
where.
NOTE—Key to Japanese policy
of friendship for the United Stat
es or allegiance to Germany al
ways is the barometer of Nazi
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CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
The Civil Service Commission
announced an examination to se
cure information specialists to
meet the demands of various Gov
military success. If Hitler is win
ning, Japan will stick by him:
and if the U. S. A. looks stronger,
it is vice versa.
U. S. MILITARY ATTACHE •
Generla John Magruder was
recently apointed head of the U.
S. military mission to China in
order to heal the slight to Chiang
Kai-Shek when he was not per
mitted to send an envoy to the
Harriman conference in Moscow.
But General Magruder is more
famous for another chapter in
his life.
When he was military attache
nd in 1938, M ; 1
or sent a report to the War De
partment on the march of Hit
ler's mechanized forces to con
quer Austria. In this report .he
said that Nazi tanks and trucks
were of poor quality and that
many of them had broken down
i enreute to Vienna.
This U. S. Military report was
immediately picked up by the
British who placed great confi
dence in the word of a U. S.
Military attache.
Today, Hitler’s tanks and ar
mored cars are the mode! for
modern warfare.
MRS. ROOSEVELT’S JOB
A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt
came to see her at the White
House, to talk about the First
Lady’s new job in the Office of
Civilian Defense. She was im
pressed at Mrs. Roosevelt's grasp
it tne problems, but a iittie dis
urbed at the boldness of some
of her plans.
So thinking of Director La
Guardia, the friend remonstrat
ed; “If you introduce such bold
:deas, what wi'l the Mayor say?"
The First Lady smiled. “My
d ar.” she said. “I don’t think
lie Mayor will say ‘No’ to me.”
NOTE: Mrs. Roosevelt cannot
spend full time at her desk in
he OCD, and uring her absence,
the job will be held down by her
good friend Mrs. Henry Morgen
thau. wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury.
FIRST LADY BEGINS NEW JOB |
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Mrs. F ranklin D. Roosevelt went to work at a new job in Wash
ington, D. C., that of assistant to Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
She is in her office being instructed by LaGuardia on her duties, j
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eminent agencies. The salaries
range from $2,600 to $4,600 a
year. Optional branches are press
and publications, and radio, pro
fessional experience in editing
or writing for a newspaper, na
tional magazines, or information:
al service, or in radio informa
tional work is required. Appo
priate education may be substi
tuted for a part of the exper
ience. Applications must be filed
not later than October 23, 1041.
Other examinations announced
include:
Junior Physicist, $2,000 a year.
Completion of a 4-year college
course with special study in
physics is required. There is
special need for physicists in the
fields of radio and sound. Appli
cation may be ft ed until further
notice.
Assistant Observer in Meteor
ology. $1,620 a year, for employ
ment in the Weather Bureau, De
partment of Commerce. Comple
tion of 2 years of college study
including mathematics or physics
or 2 years of full-time paid ex
perience as a meteorological ob
c rver is required. App ications
must be filed not later than Oc
tober 23, 1941.
Assistant and Junior Agricul
tural Statistician, $2,600 and
$2,000 a year, respectively, for
employment in the Agricultural
Marketing Service, Department
of Agriculture. For the junior
grade completion of an appro
priate 4-vear coficge course is
necessary; for the assistant, col
lege study plus experience in
statistical work relating to agri
culture. Experience on a farm is
also desirable. Applications must
be filed not later than October
23, 1941.
All applications must be sent
to the Washington office of the
Civil Service Commission not
later than the closing dates speei
fied. Full information as to the1
requirements for these examina-j
tiens, and applications forrnsH
may be obtained from Loren I
Leech, Secretary of the Board of
U. S. Civil Service Eqaminers, at j
the post office in this city, or I
fi rn the Secretary of the Board
of U. S. Civil Service Examiners
at any first or second class post
office.
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