lathe Black Hills of Wyoming
The Munffanee Times, Sun~anee, 1'Fyomlag
Thursday, August 29, 1946
Babson's Statement
ready scarce goods helps make
situation worse. Although one
ig company, close to 1941 pro_
Uction, is turning out thousands
~ f washing machines and re_
~ lgerators daily and the pro-
uction of other commodities is
ePeedily rising, the demand for
~ost things is still greater than
me supply. D ALITY
INSIST ON Gee QU
.It .may be some time before
~nces can be adjusted into bet_
ter 'balance with wages and the
v~q law of supply and demand
~m a again operate. In the mean_
e, there are bound to be some
Onlpromises with quality. Higher
rages and costs, plus price ceil_
ags have encouraged these com.
:Omises. Wise housewives w}ll
}Ject to paying the same old
:ice, el" a higher one, for poorer
aterials. Although department
ore sales have increased greatly
vet a year ago, a tendency to
Y-Pass shoddy merchandise has
egun to be apparent. In many
~es, as in the furniture business
8acre there is a shortage of sea_
uned lumber, the output, will
~robably be designed to ~ill the
~e~and and not necessarily for
.aduring satisfaction.
I'IAVE PATIENCE TO WAIT
w long must we wait to buy?
~States Department of
riculture says food commodity
rises may be stopped with a
crop this coming harvest.
'Claims that if the good weather
inues, the U. S. should have
per cent greater corn sup_
than in the normal year.
syrup and starch are, for
now up 25 per cent in
!e. These should come down.
ill
good crops in other couu_
our harvest should be a
factor in easing the world
situation. Then the grains
all their products, including
should begin to be less ex_
sire.
to wait was rewarded
ently in Florida recently where
PUblic's antipathy to a high
I]ABSON DISCUS:SES WHEN
?0 BUY
~/iGloucester, Mass., August 23.
any businesses are still feeling
the effects of the strikes in the
Steel and coal industries. Short_
ages of raw materials, plus in_
creased costs of production due
to wage increases and OPA regu_
lations on sales do not give in_
centive to mass production of
goods. Some companies have pre_
ferred to remain out of the active
~Uarket rather than risk getting
into trouble with the OPA. Typi_
¢al of this kind have been the
big meat packers. Recently, with
OPA restrictions off, some of the
Packers, after several months ab-
Sence from the market, were
again bidding for livestock.
The price rises which have
~O~ne in the wake of higher wages
ave not yet proved discourag_
!ng to those who have war say_
sags to spend. This clamor for
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The TIM ES
Sundance
price for butter caused a rivalry
between two stores. This made
their price of ~butter fall from
seventy-seven to nineteen cents a
.pound in one day: Some food re_
tailers are trying hard to "hold
the line", and in certain cases
urging customers not to ,buy. Of
course buyers' strikes in any de_
gree, can not last long against
foods, or we go hungry. But on
all the non_food commodities
those of us who have the pc_
tience to wait will sometime be
rewarded by cheaper, or at least,
better goods.
THE REVIVED 0PA
The 18 percent food price rise
after the original OPA was made
invalid brought resistance all
over the rcountry in the form of
.buyers' strikes. Labor gave every
ind4cation of planning more
strikes for more wage increases
and used ,buyers' strikes as a de-
liberate weapon to encourage a
revived OPA. Perhaps this modi_
fled form of .price control will
prove a deterrent to further la_
her demands.
It is estimated that, in any
case, the cost of living must con_
tinue to go up if wages are again
increased. No OPA can stop it.
With OPA prices would still rise.
This, therefore, is a period in
which to buy" only what we need
unless we are sure there will be
no more strikes. The time to buy
is when the supply of goods is
ample and ,businesses are com_
peting in improving their pro-
ducts with an eye to enticing the
pu,blic. This ideal state of affairs
may not come before 1948 al_
.though remem'ber what I wrote
last week about FISH!
WYOMING "01TE-SHOT" I an antelope hunt, were
liamed
by
~r~A~ ~[EX]]ERS I~A~ED ~ Governor Hunt last week. They
I
are Lannie Ross, radio singer; E.
Wyoming members of the "One.
Shot" team, which will compete [ H. Toomey of Newcastle, Harry
I with teams from Louisiana and I Yesness of Casper and L. C. Bish_
[ Colorado near Lander, .Sept. 7, in ~ op, state engineer.
IUnder the rules of the hunt,
each member of each team will be
allowed only one cartridge in his
gun and the team which ,bags the
most antelope will win.
LEGAL FORMS AT THE TIIvI~ES
Hi folks.....Welcome
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His Farm Fields Are Factories
U. S. FARMERS have made our fields
into factories.
We live better than people in other coun-
tries because our farmers get more out of the
soil.
The steel industry takes pride in the way
it has helped bring about this improvement in
farm practice. Tools of steel--from the plow-
share to the giant combine--have multiplied
in number and increased vastly in quality.
Fifty years ago the typical farm in America
used about 3 tons of steel. Today the figure
is nearer 17~ tons.
That is a measure of the modernization of
agriculture and an indication of the inter-,
dependence of steel and farming,
We no longer have separate "farm produe,
tion problems" or "industrial production prob
lems." We have but one set of problems for
everybody.
If strikes, for instance, restrict the sup,
ply of farm implements and supplies through
work stoppages, or make their cost prohibitive,
America is out of gear.
Anything which tends in this direction is
bad for the farmer--and finally for everybody:
Farmers know it. Everybody else should
know it,
Steel mills rwed all the scrap iron and steel
they can get. The shortage is serious. Farmers
can get extra dollars and help increase steel
output by sending worn.out machinery, etc., on
its way to the furnaces. AMERICAN IRON AND
STEEL INSTITUTE, 350 Fifth Avenue, New
York 1, N~ Y~
The Institute has printed a booklet STEEL SERVES THE"FARMER/i,~
........ Write.for a copy and it will be sent gladly°
