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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
PRE-WAR PROBLEMS
As we remember it, these were a lot of national problems
still unsolved when our nation went to war. ,Since then they
have become rather vague, for we have been tackling a prob
lm so much bigger than any of them.
But before Pearl Harbor, as we recall it, there was still
a good deal whicn needed to be done about unemployment,
relations between business and government were in a terrific
tangle and farmers had found no permanent solution to making
a profit out of the food they raised.
It is the hope of a good many people that the war will
somehow end with these problems solved. But we see no rea
son, at present, why this will happen. It looks very much to us
as if, as soon as the war ends, all of the pre-war problems will
quickly congregate on our doorsteps and be just as puzzling to
handle as they ever were.
We can’t escape from the pessimistic philosophy that war
doesn’t solve problems—it just makes new ones.
10% FOR THE DURATION
Because the war loan drives are carried on for a few
weeks and then stopped, a lot of people seem to have come to
think of patriotism as a sort of seasonal affair. Just as some
of u$ confine our religion to Sundays, a lot of good Americans
will chip in during the bond drives, help their town reach its
goal, and then, when it is over, take a vacation from thinking
about the cost of war.
Because of the temporary nature of enthusiasm, the total
sale of bonds is probably greater, as a result of these spurts,
than it would be if an attempt was made to keep us continually
worked up about bonds. But the high sale during drives may
also have a lot to do with the increasing number of bonds which
are- being cashed in each month.
The 10% plan—whereby we all make up our minds to put
at least 10% of our weekly earnings into bonds for th? dura
tion has more lasting value than the “drive” plan. As long
as the war goes on there is no reason why each of us innot
consider 10% of our wages as money to which we are not en
titled until the war is won—and which will then be handed to
us with interest.
LETS LEAD THE PROCESSION
Surveys are being made over the nation for the purpose
of determining postwar demands for air express and air freight.
When one looks at a map showing the design for America’s
worldwide air routes, the importance of such preparation and
coordination of the facilities to be offered the public becomes
■elf evident.
According to postwar plans now on paper, the United Stat-^
es expects that its international airlines will fly 140,000 n.iles,
60,000 of those miles over new routes. Where, before the war,
passengers were the principal load, it is expected that air ex
press and freight will add tremendously to the future cargo of
the airlines.
Just as an example to illustrate the possibilities, air ex
press handled through La Guardia field during May, averaged
more than 1,800 shipments a day , a 27.8 per cent increase
over May, 1943. For the five-month period, January to May, at
the same airport, express shipments increased 23 per cent over
1943.
Fortunately, the United States has express facilities in al
most every hamlet, which, under a coordinated pick-up and d«
livery system, are rendering universal service that can be ex
tended to meet any future air transport requirements.
As usual, private enterprise in our country is one jump
ahead of demand. We can never afford to be the tail-end of
the procession in future air developments for either passengers
or cargo shipments, as this war has so dramatically demonstrat
ed.
§
Efficient Retailing Stabilize* Production
In no other nation in the world has the average citizen
been ms well served with the necessities of life, and even lux
uries, during this present terrible war, as in the United States.
There is a reason for this—no nation in the world has had as
many free and independent business men seeking to supply the
needs of the people, as has the United States.
War restrictions on production and distribution were in
evitable. Hastily drawn as they were, many of them have been
confusing and some actually damaging to maximum production
and distribution. Nevertheless, American business adjusted it
•elf to the rules and regulations and kept the supply stream
going to consumers.
This never could have been done, nor would government
rationing and ptice n i trol have been successful, except Ur the
eflteient retailing system this nation enjoys. Chain stoves play
ed b tremendous part in results that have been secured. They
b*ve been a stabilizing influence in maintaining production and
distribution on an even keel.
Such stores were built up on the basic idea of a minimum
profit on each sale, in order to create a maximum turnover.
That policy is probably doing more to stabilize prices than any
man-made legislation can accomplish in the face of rising wag
ee a*d material coats.
Hopeful Nesting
BEHIND THE SCENES
JN AMERICAN BUSINESS
jgrJTOPN CRADDOCK)'
NEW YORK, July 24.—A fav
orite topic of serious discussions
today is the possibility of a post
war depression. It may be of in
terest, therefore, to report a
point of view which departs wide
ly from current pessimism on the
postwar outlook.
Dr. Melchior Palyi of Wiscon
sin and Chicago Universities
points out in Barron's magazine
that the fear of postwar depres
sion is generally based on what
happened in 1920-21, when there
occurred a sudden break in com
modity and securities prices, ac
companied by a wave of bankrupt
cies and unemployment. But it
seems to be forgotten, says Dr.
Palyi, that this slump lasted only
about a year or less, and guve
place to the longest peacetime
boom in American history. Nor
is it remembered that even the
1920-21 slump was not at all an
immediate post-war depression. It
actually followed two years of
post-war boom.
Historically it is a fact, he says,
that major wars (and earth
quakes!) breed booms, not de
pressions. The Crimean War in
1857 and the Austro-Pi ussian
War in 1866 were succeeded by
waves of prosperity for all the
belligerants. A boom in Europe
followed the Franco-Prussian War
of 1871. Another example, which
he cites in the Barron’s article,
is the boom that resulted in Ja
pan, after a recession of only one
year, from the 1923 earthquake.
JEWELRY RESCUE—The part
that the jewelry stores of Amer
ica played in saving the aircraft
program is the latest “now it can
be told1’ story of war production.
Back before Pearl Harbor, these
jewelers bought a good many old
watches for the gold cases. The
movements were mostly tossed in
to drawers to serve as banks of
spare parts for watch repair.
Then, came the crisis. The
world’s largest aircraft flight in
strument manufacturing plant,
operated by Bendix Aviation cor
poration in Philadelphia, was fac
ed with only a 30-day supply of
jewel bearings when the fall of
Belgium and France cut off the
jewels from Switzerland.
Without these bearings, which
reduce friction to a minimum and
are so tiny that 100,000 could be
held in the palm of the hand, it is
impossible to make aircraft flight
instruments precise enough to
serve in modern planes. Without
these instruments, aircraft—from
trainers to super-bombers—can
not be safely operated. So Ben
dix sent out a crew of men to
scour the jewelry stores of the
nation—and even pawnshops—to
buy old watches and watch move
merits. The jewels thus obtained
were used to tide production of
instruments over until sources of
jewel production could be built
up in this country.
THINGS TO COME—Dehydrat
ed pineapples for convenience and
economy in making pastries and
pie-fillings . . . An improved cot
ton picking machine, developed
by International Harvester com
pany, which is said to pick clean
and not leave any useable cotton
in the balls ... A mechanical tree
planter which requires a crew of
only three men to plant 2,000
seedlings an hour. Perfected at
Wisconsin College of Agriculture,
the device may revolutionize re
forestation activities.
ONE AND ONLY TASK—Tin
automobile industry has rejectee
unanimously a War Prouuctioi
Hoard plan for the manufacture
of 2,000,000 new cars upon ter
mination of hostilities with tier
many because it feels that wai
production is still the one and on
ly task. , Meanwhile, the auto con
cerns are strengthening the per
sonnel structure of their organi
zations -o that they will be ready
for the |" -iwar competition when
the time arrives.
Attontiei was focused this week
oil U illys Overland Motors by the
| election to its pro idetic*' of Char
1 les E. Sorensen, international!»
famous production genius, erea
tin at the automobile assembly
line and Willow Hun's renowned
bond er-an-bour man. Regarded by
many as the outstanding authority
in America on the mass produc
tion of low-cost, lightweight, eeo
nomical-to-opei ate vehicles, Sor
ensen is expected to give the Tol
edo concern which designed am:
developed the "Jeep” a prominent
spot in the postwar picture.
COMPETITION—One thing w.
can be sure about in the postwai
world, competition is going to oi
keener than ever. The urge will o,.
strong for companies now operat
ing at double and triple their pre
war volumes to make new lines o,
I civilian products. Thus they wil
| hope to provide more jobs that
| i efore the war and to utilize plant
! capacity which has been expander
! for war production. Consumer:
| of course will benefit too, sinct
I lowei prices, better products ant
I mere service would be a natura
j sequel. General Mills, Inc., ha:
j announced definite plans to aup:
, i. ent its food processing busine*:
> by manufacture of electrical up
pliances for household use. \V<
may expect that plans of othei
companies to engage in produc
tion of new types of consumer:
goods w ill come to light in inert as
ing numbers the nearer we movi
to the day of German’s fina
pal ciuck-up.
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WORK SHOP
Agricultural engineers suggest
that every farm should have a
good work srop and that all ma
chinery should be kept in repair.
Chicks produced by commercial
hatcheries in the U. S. during
June decreased (35 percent from
June, 1943.
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INFUJENCE PEOPir
SOLDIER MAKES HIS OWN JOB
This is the true story of a soldier'returning from the
first World war. John Spencer RedshaW, returning to
(iranyille, III., near w here he was born, looked around for
an onening None was to be had. So lie made an open.,
ing.
One day he was m The post office when he saw a man
trying to fill out a money order with ari old rusted pen—
you know the kind of pens they have in post oil ices. 1 he
mail became disgusted with the pen and reached into his
pocket and hauled out a fancy-looking pen and filled out
the money order. Redshaw stared at the I aitcy-looking
pen and finally he asked the stranger where he got the
pen. The man told him, so ex-Soldier Redshaw sent to the
company and bought a dozen for three dollars.
lie traded those fountain pens to the men lie knew for
any old thing they wanted to offer. He found lie had a
natural ability for trading. He ended this swapping spree
with a shotgun and $15.
He rented a little hole-in-the-wall place and got some
other odds and ends and swapped them. Then he establish
ed an astonishing principle; he didn’t want money; he
Iust wanted to trade; and that’s exactly what he did
Trailed. Traded with anybody who came along.
I’retty soon he became known as Traded Red slid v. Peo
ple outside of the state heard of him.
He prospered, bought an old bank building. One day an
opportunity came along to swag for some diamonds;. He
didn’t know any more about diamonds than a dog does
about Deuteronomy. But he swapped. And he made
money.
He has grown rich by just swapping- Only 1 •"> per cent
of his business is money business. His know ledge of hu
man nalure is what makes him a success. But one day he
got taken in. A man appealed with a cote of nice-looking
pigeons and said he wanted to swap ’em. “Trader" Ked
shaw told him to look around and find what he wanted.
The man chose a shotgun and the exchange \^ns made.
But the pigeons were homing pigeons—and in a few days
“Trader" Redshaw didn’t have any pigeons.
Redshaw has ow ned 10 yachts—and has never seen one
of them. He'd trade for them on description and photo
graph, and then sell ’em. Each time he made money. Now
the richest man in the county, he has so many diamonds
and jewels in the vault in his store that he has to keep an
armtd guard day and night. In one day he received let
ters from 11 different counties. On top of this he's had a
wonderful time.
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