Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 45, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 March 1945 — Page 2

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OPA, WLB DECISIONS CONFLICT ON GRANTING PRICE, WAGE INCREASES ! . There is! an economic case for wage increases. But events ; show that the latent powerful pressure of industry on OPA to break' price ceilings has made wage raises practically impossible. The very existence of OPA depends on Congress, - where industry lobbies throw heavy weight. Wage increases result in inevitable stepping-up of industry pressure directly and through Congress on OPA. It is in this situation more political than economic-that the threat of inflation lies. Tims revising Little Steel, while at the same time maintaining stabilization boils down to more of a political than an "-i'conomic problem. - '' This is the factor which WLB decisions and OES directives have not discussed. It has been dramatized in an event which went almost unnoticed last Jan. 11. Buried under the , deluge of releases pouring from OWI was the announcement ' that OPA had -ordered price increases of from $2. to $ a ton on fiye important types of rolled steel. And cost studies were announced to be under way which would result in even further price increases. ..' " : -; ; . : The question which immediately arises, but which has .' been left unasked, is this.: Were these price increases granted 'because the steelworkers were. provided the opportunity to negotiate for '"fringe" wage adjustments' by WLB on Nov. 25 ? Did industry pressure become so 'great on OPA following the wage adjustments that price, increases became politically necessary'? ' OPA leaned over backwards to indicate" that, the answer was no. "The increases are based upon a need for adjustment in prices . .. .' that existed beforelabor wage adjustments became effective ; , . V OPA said. But the - facts brought out by OPA's own research division say otherwise. Its confidential report on the steel industry, in August, 1941, found that even if the full 17-cent wage increase sought by the union was granted, the industry would have no economic justification for a price rise. "" There is added indication that more politics than economics entered into OPA's decision to raise steel prices. For example, there is the strange concidence that the initial price increases which affect 25 million tons of steel per year will add $5:1 million in revenue to the industry, nearly the amotint of the cost of the. wage, adjustments. The increases, "still to come will result in an estimated total addition in revenue of $150 million,, more than double the cost of increased wages. U. S. Steel alone will add $50 million to its -yearly income through increased prices.-while its share of ; the added labor costs comes to only- $30 million, : , OPA's attempt to justify economically the steel price rise is by a devious pricing rule called the "Product Standlard." This standard allows price increases across the boar.i for special products regardless of the over-all profits beingjnade by the producer. Deputy Administrator Brownlee, of -OPA has said of it: "This standard almost always has the "result that much of the industry receives more than cost,

sometimes much more than cost." OPA general pricing rules 'allow for rises only when an industry is earning less than in ,a pre-war period or when necessary to increase production. . Brownlee has admitted that price adjustments bnsed-on supposed costs of specific products in multiple-product industiies are easily manipulated. "Indeed, it is sometimes 1 impossible without resort to pretty theoretical or arbitrary -cost-accounting methods to tell how much if any profit is "being made on a particular product," he told a House corn-, -mittee last spring. The steel price rise is one of the most dramatic, but it

.is not the only example of the effect of political pressure on -OPA. There are similar examples in the fields of cotton textiles and pig iron. Considering the strength and extent of the pressure, it is probably a miracle that OPA hasn't yielded to it more often. But it is this industrial and political -pressure, and not the inflationary threat of wage rises, that Relays Little Steel revision. 21121213

- SHE REALLY MEANS IT I MALDEN, Mass. (UP) A new "fad going the rounds is illustrated by Bunny Fleming of Maiden,

who wears a red school cap wit'i a cigarette affixed to the visor, which bears the message, "Hard to Bet."

v, . .It'. SYNOPSIS , "Aggie" is the familiar name for Dr. Agamemnon Telemachus Plum, 34, professor of anthropology and : a bachelor, whose Aunt Sarah, a marital matchmaker, has dragooned

him into coming with hr to Rain-J

bow Lodge, the family summer home at Indian Stones. En route , she promoted the charms of Beth ' Calder. Upon arrival, Aggie found a personal card: Henry H.Bogarty, impaled by a hunting knife on the front door, frame. A telegram, signed "Hank," announced his coming visit "for a new grubstake"; it was received at the lodge earlier that day. He was an old friend of Sarah. ."Jim" Calder, a broker, called on Sarah. After a brief clash with Aggie, he left. Old John, the family butler, told Aggie that Calder had lost lots of money for Indian Stones investors. The knife, left on the porch rail, is missing. Late that night, Aunt Sarah came to Aggie's room, obviously veryill,' and he motored to Dr. George G. Davis at Medicine Lodge, nearby. The doctor's daughter, alluring Danielle, answered his knocks with lighted candles, explaining that the power system is out of order. She escorts Aggie to the garage where her father is working in his photographic dark room. She raps on the door. CHAPTER SEVEN The response was crisp. "Just a second! Who is it?" "Me. Dr. Plum has come over. Sarah's sick." "Be right out." There was a moment of silence. "Tell him I've got to wash up and get my bag." A ' lock clicked and the door opened. From the dark corridor, Aggie had a glimpse of a tight little room, crammed witii photographic muterials. A candle burned there, behind a red globe. He noticed one small window very high up oer a sink. "I'll be only a jiffy!" 4ggie could see nothing but the man's arm. He realized Dr. Davis did not .know. he was standing behind Danielle. She started back down the corridor. . When they reached the living room, she inspected him attentively. "I generally Hud these meetingsfollowing a common childhood ex . tremely disillusioning, Yoh, at least, have made-a mark somewhere even if the rest of us haven't." .. He had no idea what she did, or whether she was married, or if she was widowed or divorced or anything .else. He had forgotten her. , He eonld see that ishe was a beaui til" id woman and no more. He nodded,1! 1 1 " ' i . , "You1 .look, heaven.' knows, like Joe Academy, the Cloistered Wonder-boy! How many honorary -degrees have you by now?" That hurt him and annoyed him intensely besides. He thought of a retort which, as a rule, he failed to do. "The pigtails are still there in a figurative sense. I remember them.- Blonde basically but vertiginous from being a mite soiled. You were a vile child, Danielle. At six anyway." She smiled with what seemed to be pleasure. But he could also see the rise and spread in her cheeks

of a faint wrath. There was a brisk step in the rear of the house and her father came into the room. "Aggie, old man!" He slowed for a fraction of a second at the sight of the Vandyke. "Splendid to have you here ! Heard you'd be up for the summer. What in heaven's name is wrong with Sarah? Got the constitution of a loggerhead!" Dr. George G. Davis didn't look two decades older. Only one. Crisp and lithe. Pisce-nej and pin-striped suit. A really fine surgeon and neurologist who could pass as a good banter or the director of corporations'anything successful and important. He was leading Aggie toward the door. "Got a car?" 4 Danielle Came to the window with

.lighted nis pipe. He sat quiefc-4

turning his bead with-consummata slowness when he heard a pattering sound on the road. Dog, he thought, straining his eyes. Black dog. Funny-looking one. Like a fox. Was a fox. He puffed his pipe; the animal, seeing the eddy of smoke, also saw the man. It vanished. Sarahs door was opening. Aggie heaved himself tiredlv from the porch railing and hurned into the living room. Danielle's father wa replacing things in his bag with hands so swift and dexterous it was interesting to watch him do even that. "Got to quarantine Sarah," h said.

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and wife are filing a combined return, both must sign. Collector Smith explained that returns filed on a Withholding Receipt should be mailed to his office, without any money. His staff will then figure out the tax, give the taxpayer credit for taxes already paid, and send a bill or a refund for the difference. Where a bill is due, it will usually take the collector a few days to a few weeks to make up the bill and mail it, but the taxpayer will have 30 days from the date of the bill to pay it. Where a refund is due, the return will be verified and a check will be mailed as soon as possible. Taxpayers who file their returns on the standard income tax blank, Form 1040, need not fill in their Withholding Receipts but must nevertheless attach their receipts to their Form 1040 returns, Mr. Smith added.' Also when filing a return on Form 1040, any balance of tax due on the, return must be paid with the' return not later than March

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Aggie thought silently or a retort. "You were t vile child, Danielle.' At six anyway." '

her branched candlestick to watch them leave. Aggie glanced up from the controls. She stuck out her tongue. It took three noisy attempts to get the ear in gear. i "My daughter's with me for the summer, too," the surgeon said. "First time s'ince " he broke off. "About Sarah?" "She thinks it's tetanus. I don't. No rigor. Not tbe look in the eyes " The other man chuckled. "We aren't diagnosing people' by facial expression these days, Aggie." VYott ought to." . While the surgeon made his ex1 animation Aggie waited in a dismal circuit of anxiety for his aunt, and irritation at Danielle. Outdoors, the slow wattage of nature leaked btuely up into the sky with a hue that was not normal in daytime, but dawn's sickly counterpart of noon. He could hear his aunt's voice buzzing in her room and once she laughed. She'd gossip on her deathbed, he thought. Presently he went out on the porch and examined the luminous murk, breathed the air,

"How's that!" "Mumps." "Mumps?" Plum c'hoea. ' "She gave a banui'.t to a sV,v of refugee kids. Right intei Tal. Right symptoms. Wouldn't stite y reputation on it but I wouklii I bring her a pickle for breakfast, either. Not if I valued my life. In a person of her age mumps can be serious. Keep her in bed. You had 'em?" The bearded man was grinding with relief. "Mc? Sure. Heth sides." Then ljis left eyebrow lif,fed in an expression of soliitrus mirth. "Boy, will that be a blow to Sarah!" Aggie slept late. When he came downstairs, he found old John preparing his breakfast. "Heard your shower," John said. ggie ga.ed at the bright sunshine and the windruffled trees. It was a fine day'. He learned that Sarah was "up anj swearing" and he carried s- cup of coffoe into her bedroom. (To be continued) roiivritM. 1913 t7 Philip Wvll: DlilriliUletJ by Klnii I'etlurvs )'QJu-ii4, lu&

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UP) Since the outbreak of World War II, 335 Harvard alumni have been killed in action or in line of duty. The university honor roll now carries 24,476 names. FACTOGRAPHS In 1859 the discovery of gold near Boulder and Idaho Springs, Colo., was followed by a large immigration into the state, and the sudden rise of Denver and Boulder. King Cole, the "merry old soul," was a real British king, who is said to have taken Camulodunum from the Romans and to have named it for himself, Colchester. Venezuela, Southx America, is the world's second largest petroleum exporter,

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SUGGEST RULES TO HELP FILE FED'L. ! INCOME TAX RETURNS ' Will H. Smith, Collecter of j Internal Revenue for the District 1 of Indk-na suggested four simple j rules to help (he millions of wage-earners who intend to use ! their withholding Receipts as their 1944 income tax returns. A l return is required not later than March 15 from every person who had S500 or more income last ' vrar and who is not abroad on i that date. I The suggested uiles are as follows: 1. Be sure to fill in the information about your income in lines 1 to 5 on the front side of your receipt. If you had more t1 fin one jrb last year and if you u-rJ ifpnie rnt'-'irle of your job, be sure to include .all your income. If husband and wife are making a combined return, in- J elude all the income of both. ' Read the "test" on the receipt -.o i we if -(u are eligible to use ihe , receipt as a return; if not, use j Form 1040 and attach your receipt to it. I 2. Be sure to list on the bark of j your receipt the names of all the I ! persons including yourself, for I

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