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1 'V I RAISED THEM BASEBALL, JyO RIGHT By Ernie Bushmiller OH.SLUGGO, 1 WOW A IT'S NOT SO I I'D LIKE 1.1 ('OK AY I'LL SHOW 1 LOOK AT THAT MIND READER HARD, I r- 1 TO SEE YOU POSTER fivSi WONDER CAN DO OH, VOU now you stand 1 1 you'RE wow dat's FLOOGLE'S IQE CREAM RIGHT THERE WHILE. I THINKING OF WONDERFUL I CONCENTRATE SOMETHING A-V- Babson's Discussions By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. American Public Enemy No. 1 today is Inflation; but unfortunately like Enemy No.
2, which is liquor too many people are temporarily prospering by flirting with these enemies, People Have More Money The American people today have more dollars than at any time in our history, nearly $2,000,000,000 even after taxes have been taken out. That's about two and one half times as much as they had pre-war. There have been tremendous post-war spurts in individual earnings. Per capita income in the United States has increased 130 per cent over 1940 levels. Incidentally, folks in Kansas, the Dakotas, and the great Northwest have had the greatest increases in Income.
The trouble is that prices are so much higher, more than twice as high and still going up that your dollar and mine now buy less than at any time since the post-Revolutionary days of the 1780's. Cheap automobiles and housing, for example, are now out of reach of the average worker. Yet, this bad condition will continue so long as labor leaders and politicians are making money from high prices. Dollar At New Low One hundred cents today will buy only forty per cent of the food it purchased pre-war. The post-war clothing dollar has declined to approximately fifty per cent of its pre-war value.
A dollar spent today to keep a roof over your head will buy but eighty-nine cents worth of pre-war rentals, while new housing is only about sixty-cents worth of pre-war value. The dollar, when you consider its all-round purchasing power, in terms of radios, cars, refrigerators, butter, milk, bread, suits, and shoes, will buy only about half the things it bought in 1940! Inflation is our major national headache today our Public Enemy No. 1. The picture today Is much the same as It was after the last war when the dollar was worth only fifty cents in terms of the goods and services it would buy. A study of business cycles shows that inflation follows wars.
This is usually characterized by cheap money and a business boom. But the business boom usually burns itself out. So prepare yourself. A day of reckoning will as surely follow as does night the day. Stop The Boom! The President and our Congress have offered sure-cures to end our present inflationary spiral.
I know of no time in our history where a major price rise was ever halted by politics. High prices are the result of a shortage of goods and a surplus of money and as I recently explained of various laws which Roosevelt had passed to force higher prices. Since 1940-41 the supply of money has outrun the supply of goods. People have needed or wanted things short on supply and have had the money, for the first time, to buy them. As buyers we have bid against one another for available goods.
Hence, prices have soared. There are three fundamental things which we can do to help stop this Inflationary spiral. If high prices and inflation are the result of (1) a shortage of goods and (2) a surplus of money and (3) New Deal legislation, then we should (1) increase our productivity along all fronts, (2) wait awhile for buying what we can now get along without, and (3) have Congress repeal the crazy laws it passed in 1932-34. Increased production has already broken the price rise in some commodities. A supply exceeding demand hsjs already shown up along some manufacturing lines.
Shortages still exist along such lines as steel and autos. But given time a greater balance in our economy will result. Let Us Use Religion Tinkering with natural economic laws and with politics will cure neither inflation nor deflation. Lets buy those things which are in full supply and encourage oiir fellow workers to produce to capacity. In other words, let us use some self-control and re-iigion in-buying and producing.
This could well mean the difference between a "bust" and continued prosperity. i In Hollywood By ERSKIVE JOHNSON Hollywood (NEA) When Johnny Weissmuller was making Tarzans for Sol Lesser, no power on earth could force him to go on personal appearance tours to ballyhoo the pictures. Now he's going on the road to ballyhoo his latest, "Jungle Jim." It makes a difference when a star has his own money invested' in a picture. Norma Shearer must be planning to stage a one-woman fur fashion show in the Swiss Alps. She had designer Al Teitelbaum turn out 10 expensive fur pieces for her trip to Switzerland, It's Pinky Lee's story about an agent who had to tell his writer client that M-G-M had turned down his latest script a story for Lassie.
The agent tried to soothe the crestfallen writer by suggesting that he build the story around a policS dog and peddle it elsewhere. The writer listened for a moment and then icily remarked: "Don't be ridiculous. This was written for a collie." ADAM? Republic Is reading a story about anthropology. It's a murder mystery and deals with the reconstruction of the skeleton of the first man. A ham comedienne shares the laughs with Bette Davis and Bob Montgomery in "June Bride." It's Genevieve, a three-month-old pig.
Newest note in interior decoration: For a scene In RKO's "Interference," there's a penthouse with a sunken living room three steps below the level of the rsst of the apartment with a sunken divan three steps below the level the sunken living room. Another prizefight film coming up titled "The Bet-Up." But the writers assure me there will be no scene of the heroine arriving at ringside just In time to spur the almost vanquished hero on to victory. Or a scene of the discarded manager cheering his boy on to triumph from an indiscernable seat in the gallery. Film writer Charles Schnee's description of a nurse in the fight picture: "She's so beautiful that if men patients don't look twice at her, the doctor knows they are really sick." Erin O'Kelly, ex-Chicago beauty contest win-ner, will play the part. HAND! ANDY It's the "New Look" for Andy Devine.
He'll play a serious role for the third time in his career In Republic's "The Missourlans." The last time Andy left comedy, as a villain in "The Michigan Kid," his fans protested so loudly that Andy went back to laughs in a hurry. Hollywood Economy Note: The Sextet from Lucia will be sung by only five performers In "An Old-Fashioned Girl," Gloria Jean's new picture. Radio's "Philo Vance," Jackson Beck, is preparing to produce movie shorts in New York starring himself as a film detective. Television brings actors right into your home but Roger Price says has been getting the same effect for years sth food. 1 1 Ol 1 CV jj fe I fmt'm THE SHAFT WAS 6HE'5 COIN' IT IT AN OLD-Y I USED TO KICK Yl a liyji BOys ARe 1 cIpla HAP tPfS000 1 "nMER.
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