Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1942, Page 17

TROUSERS To Match e e NG EISEMAN'S—F Delivery of Night Final Edition The Night Final Edition of The Star, with two addi- tional pages of last-minute news, is delivered through- out Washington and nearby suburbs, together with The Sunday Star. at 85c per month. This edition gives the latest developments of the day in International, Na- tional and Local news, with complete Financial Reports. Special delivery is made between 8 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. daily. stands for Madrillon \ Y stands for Victory in the government’s cru- sade for better health, in which the Madrillon is heartily enlisted. Its menus are packed full of the health vita- mins — temptingly pre- pared—served with the accompaniment of good music. Don’t “eat on the run”— but join good food with good health — enjoying Luncheon—11:30 to 3 Ralon and his violin Cocktails—4 to 6 Berved with tempting snacks Dinner—5:30 to 9:30 Dinner dancing beginning at 7:30 Supper—10 to 1 Care 2 Don and Trio Lirico plaving for ‘uninterrupted daneing. Marits do "snd June Sothern_sincine riean faverites. ey’ WEATHER REPORT Somewhat Colder today, accompanied by dimin- ishing winds. ray for Aunt Jemima's old- pancakes! Her secret recipe —found only in Aunt Jemima's Ready-Mix—gives you light, fluffy ancakes with a real, old-time vor I Easy as 1, 2, 3 to fix. Just add milk or water, mix—then pop 'em on the griddle. Nourishing, eco- nomical, and good for the whole family! Get a box today" REPORT TO THE NATION THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th Installment of MacLeish’s Statement On War Status viIL. The Home Front Our plush days are over. We are no longer the carefree land of plenty, every counter heaped with chromium-coated gadgets, every store bursting with limit- A less supplies of shoes and seal- ing wax. Total war requires so many materials that there is just not enough to go around. The production of much-needed ammunition requires copper that formerly went into ash trays, weatherstripped windows or toy trains. We need the ammuni- tion. We can do without the toy trains. To see that first things come first is a major task of the new War Production Board, which supersedes the Supply, Priorities and Allocation Board, or S. P. A. B. The new board includes representatives of the agencies formerly represented on S. P. A. B.: the Army and Navy, the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Production Manage- ment, the Office of Price Ad- ministration, the Federal Loan Agency, and the Lend-Lease Ad- ministration. Immediately after its creation, S. P. A. B. called for detailed estimates of all requirements of materials, labor and equipment for the succeeding 18 months. The situation on strategic ma- terials and tools was carefully studied before the United States entered the war, After the war, added attention was given to commodities imported from the Far East, such as rubber, tin, antimony, bristles, chrome, mica and burlap. Expansion of production was a general policy of S. P. A. B, and the Office of Production Management was charged with its realization. Since few fac- tories were adjusted to war pro- duction at the beginning of the effort, the job has been tremen- dous and the perplexities unend- ing. Existing plants have been expanded and new ones built. To this end, the Government and private industry had by Decem- ber 1, 1941, committed them- selves to spend 5.1 billion dollars and 1.2 billions, respectively. Expansion Stepped up. In September, S. P. A. B. ap- proved a program of expanding steel ingot capacity by 10,000,000 tons. Before Pearl Harbor, proj- ects for about two-thirds of this program had been approved. Since then additional projects have been rushed through, vir- tually filling out the 10,000,000 tons. Before Pearl Harbor, too, expansion programs had been drawn up and, in the main, got- ten under way to expand_gur aluminum capacity by 700.000,000 pounds and magnesium by 350,- 000000 pounds a year by 1943. With & goal of 125,000 airplanes for 1943, both these programs will have to be stepped up. High priority ratings have been granted to increase substantially the production of high-octane (aviation) gasoline. Production schedules of all mu- nitions and tools have been ac- celerated. Before June, 1940, the normal annual output of ma- chine tools—without which no airplanes or complicated guns, tanks or combat cars can be built—was $150,000,000. This was expanded to $800,000,000 in 1941 and should reach 12 billion vol- ume in 1942, * X X % Replacements Expanded To insure adequate supplies of scarce materials for war pur- poses, less essential uses of these materials have been curtailed. Steel plates and welding pipe for the construction of petroleum pipe line, for example, were re- fused. Construction projects not vital to the war effort have been limited. However, ample provision has been made for spare parts and replacements so that the life of durable machinery now in the hands of consumers can be ex- tended. With farm equipment, S. P. A. B. reduced the materials available for making new equip- ment by 17 per cent but raised the quotas of materials for re- placement parts by 50 per cent. * k% x During 1941, the United States produced more articles for civilian consumption than ever before in its history. To strip off some of this “fat,” production cuts have been ordered for everyday goods like automobiles, radios, ice bqxes, irons, washing machines, lawn mowers, garden rakes, paper con- tainers, fancy galoshes and juke boxes. It has been estimated that $20,000,000,000 of productive ca- pacity, based on 1941 operations, can be diverted from civilian to military life. We face imediate and sweeping curtailment of the less essential civilian products. Our eagerness for news from the battle fronts of the world must not blind us to the silent, Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called upon to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. Demand from every clerk that any unnecessary wrpping of packages or un- necessary use of paper bags be dispensed with. Waste paper for paperboard is vital to the packaging of a great quantity of war equip- ment. Do not turn ngwspapers, but, when you. have saved enough tor a bundle, give them to the school children who are co- operating in the defense pro- gram with the parent-teacher organization in The Stars campaign for reclaiming old newspapers, bloodless battle at home, the battle of inflation. Inflation rav- ages a population as effectively as bombing from the air. More than 45 per cent of the total cost to the United States of World War I resulted from inflation. Should prices continue their present upswing, they will add to the war program more than the total cost of the First World War. Defense expenditures from July, 1940, to December, 1941, includ- ing sums appropriated by Con- gress, and loans by R. F. C. corporations. and foreign orders totaled 184 billion dollars. Of this, 2.4 billion or 13 per cent, represented excess cost due to inflation. Inflation Evident. Inflationary signs are every- where apparent. Since the out- break of war, in September, 1939, wholesale prices have risen 24 per cent. Almost two-thirds of this increase has taken place within the past nine months. The cost of living, meaning the prices paid by the housewife for food, clothing and shelter, has increased 11 per cent. Four- fifths of this increase has taken place within the past nine months. The cost of living is surging upwards at the rate of 11 per cent a month and, should it continue unabated, will have risen 15 per cent by March, 1942. An increase of 15 per cent in living costs means that the great mass of people will forfeit, to in- flation, one day's wage out of every seven. * ok ok Not only must inflation be pre- vented so that profiteering is pre- vented and the burdens of war are distributed equitably; it must be prevented also to avoid social and economic prostration after the war. The higher prices are allowed to rise now, the farther they must fall after the war. ‘The Way Ceilings Work. In the absence of specific price- control legislation, the Office of Price Administration has relied on informal, persuasive means of cantrol, supported by the emer- gency powers of the President. These controls have taken the form of suggestions and warn- ings, letters freezing prices, lists of fair prices, voluntary agree- ments with individual producers and more formal price ceilings. Ceilings do not “fix” or “freeze” prices. Only an upper limit is set, below which prices can fluctuate freely. As of December 20, 1941, 57 ceilings had been in- voked. In all, 35 per cent of the total value of wholesale goods was under centrol. The effectiveness of these ceil- ings ‘has been proved. Since the beginning of the war in Septem- ber, 1838, uncontrolled prices have risen one-third more than controlled prices, although the commodities selected for control have been in greatest demand. Almost half the fleld of metals and metal products is covered by price ceilings. These prices have advanced only 10 per cent since the beginning of the war. Steel prices, controlled, have remained virtually unchanged since Sep- tember, 1939. In the same num- ber of months of World War I, the price of steel plates, uncon- trolled, rose 210 per cent. Pig- iron prices, controlled, have risen 15 per cent, compared with 53 per cent during the first war, Between July, 1914, and October, 1916, copper prices rose 113 per cent. Today, controlled, they have risen 16 per cent. During the last war chemical prices more than doubled. Now they have risen one-fifth. Installment Buying Tightened. Inflation is being fought along a broad front. Regulations gov- erning installment buying have been tightened to require larger down payments and to shorten the periods in which to pay. The possible inflationary effects of competitive Government buying have been minimized through centralized purchasing. Wherever possible, the supply of materials and goods has been expanded. The Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice has broken up conspiracies to raise prices. Many high food prices, for ex- ample, are purely the result of conspiracies. Indictments have been obtained against cold-stor- age speculators, cheese distrib- utors, bread companies, grocers, meat packers and others charged with raising the price of their products by illegal means. Three days after the Department of Justice obtained an indictment against a tungsten carbide mo- nopoly the price of tungsten car- bide fell from $200 a pound to $48 & pound. (To be continued.) AGP SUPER FOR FINE FABRICS Ivory Snow QUICK SUDSING CHIPSO (2 = 17¢ = 22c GRANULATED SOAP DUZ 2;:017¢ zzc P&G SOAP FOR LAUNDRY 6 == 25¢ 99 44/100% PURE Ivory Soap 3 17¢ CAMAY TOILET SOAP 4 cakes 25e HEINZ FRESH CUCUMBER PICKLES E g 7 HEINZ RICE FEEL STRONG AND STEADY WITH A “STEERO TODDY" BE PREPARED! 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