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ABOUT 1954 BUSINESS
Dr. Gordon McKinley, chief of the Prudential Com
pany of America’s economic staff, says business next
year will be at about the same level as this year. These
words, from the top economy expert of the nation’s
second largest insurance company, are newsworthy.
McKinley joins a number of other economists who
refuse to believe a serious recession is in store for the
American citizen in 1954. Many economic experts,
perhaps a majority, are predicting business in general
will be five to ten percent below the 1953 level, and
have been predicting a recession for at least a year now.
However, McKinley says there will be a sharp
increase in consumer buying in 1954 and that this
increase will offset expected decrease in government
spending, home building and other capital expendi
tures. In addition to his prediction on general business
activity, Dr. McKinley foresees the following develop
ments in 1954:
The number of workers employed will be up
slightly, not down, in 1954. The average work week
will decline slightly, although average wages will
increase about six cents an hour. This increase in
average wages is one of the reasons Dr. McKinley pre
dicts that consumer buying will increase in 1954.
Since taxes will also be down, this will also in
crease disposable income, and will probably hike the
total amount spent by consumers next year by five or
six billion dollars. Dr. McKinley says consumers will j
enjoy a better market next year than they have since
1950, and predicts a decline in prices of two percent.
State Dept. Orders
Romanian Legation Stop
Publishing Red Papers
WASHINGTON UP) — The State
Department today ordered the
Romanian legation “to stop pub
lication of a newspaper and other
Communist publications in the
United States immediately.”
A department statement said
the action was taken as a result
of the Romanian government’s
banning of a monthly publication
issued by the American legation
in Bucharest on Dec. 29. This pub
lication, called “News From Am
erica” and printed in Romanian,
was first issued last October with
a circulation of about 1,600 copies,
the State Department said.
Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La)
issued a statement this week pro
testing publication in the United
States of the Romanian weekly
periodical, called “The Romanian
News.”
A State Department spokesman
said the banning of this paper
was taken because of the Ro
manian prohibition of the Ameri
can publication and was not re
lated to Brooks’ protest.
More than half of Americans
wear spectacles
Withdrawal Indian
Support Seen As
Aid to Propaganda
TUCSON, Ariz., UP)—One of the
nation’s leading experts on Russia
declared Wednesday night if the
United States withdraws com
pletely from Indian affairs it will
give the Communists a powerful
propaganda weapon.
Dr. Clyde Kluckhorn, director
of the Russian Research Center at
Harvard University, told the Am
erican Anthropological Assn, the
U.S. cannot afford to behave dis
honorably towards the Redman.
John Collier, former commis
sioner of Indian Affairs, told the
scientists several bills were before
Congress and others are ready for
introduction that would do away
with the Indian Reorganization
Act and withdraw the federal gov
ernment from Indian affairs.
Kluckhorn said, “Such a with
drawal on a countrywide scale
would be a betrayal.
“In terms of world affairs, we
cannot afford to do it.
“Three weeks ago the Russian
press published an article about
the Navajo. They took half truths
and untruths and made an article
that did not make comfortable
reading.
“The- Communists are struggl
ing to get the uncommitted third
of the world. If we fail in our
responsibility to the Indians, we
will be giving them a natural in
strument of propaganda.”
Americans Released By
Russians Say Detention
Camps Are “Hell Holes’’
By TOM REEDY
BERLIN, (JP) — Two Americans
released by the Russians after
years of imprisonment and forced
labor said Thursday Soviet de
tention camps are “hell holes”
where murder and violent death
are commonplace.
Leland Towers, 28, a merchant
seaman from San Francisco, told
a news conference he had been a
card-carrying Communist “but
never again.”
Pvt. Homer Cox, of Oklahoma
City, said he was blown off the
aircraft carrier Yorktown before
the Japanese sank her in 1942
“and that was a picnic” com
pared to the Russian work camps.
Towers said he had tried to go
to the Soviet Union to see what
the mainsprings of Communism
was like and had been refused a
visa. Then, he explained, he cross
ed into Russia over the Finnish
border in 1951 and was arrested,
convicted and sentenced to three
years “for breaking in.”
Ex-sailor Cox, a military police
man in West Berlin, said he was
apparently “drugged” in a cafe
the night of Sept. 5, 1949, and
when he awoke he was in Russian
hands. He said they gave him
three years after a quick trial on
charges of being part of an “in
telligence organization,” and sus
picion of having slain a Russian
officer.
FRENCH HIT INVADERS
SAIGON, Indochina, Iff) —
French fighters and bombers plas
tered the Comunist-led invaders
of Laos today and French ground
defenders of the little Indochinese
kngdom hastly strengthened key
bases.
The French announced they had
lost about a company of their own
and North African troops in the
Vietminh attack. The scouting
units reported however, they were
rounding up soldiers of former
garrisons in the area who had fled
into the jungle at the Vietminh
advance.
JEW YEAR
unknown;
aok Unread;
House with rooms
nanted;
msailed;
A Word unsaid;
A Tree with fruit
Unharvested;
A Tale untold;
A Tear unshed;
A Reel—unrolled—
Of colored thread;
A Field untilled;
A Friend unfed;
A Loaf—unbaked—
of living bread;
A Song, unsung;
A Hill ahead;
A Beauty Spot
Unvisited.
A Web unspun;
A Wing unspread;
A Hope as yet
Unheralded.
A Fight unfought;
A Fear unfled;
A Conqueror
With uncrowned head.
Another year
Will soon be dead;
This is the Year
That Old Year bred.
—Johnstone G. Patrick.
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