FUTURES
BELL, DANIEL
FUTURES By Daniel Bell Formet managing; tditot of The New Leadet and of the magazine Common Sense, now member, of the Social Science Faculty of the College of ike University of...
...They have seemed unable to differentiate between a Communist and a social reformer, between a fellow traveler and a liberal...
...The result is that he ia lost to the liberal movement, and a local political organization which cou'd become the nucleus of vigorous political activity in the heart of reaction just withers and dies...
...Currently, 312,000 bituminous miners art reported...
...ever, there is no market economy and prices are fixed by the planning commission—yet the Ruseian economy has faced a severe inflation which has forced the planning bodies to admit severe miscalculations...
...Another diminutive of this, Italian bulletin!, for shorter and leu formal metteget, became English bulletin...
...Labor—none...
...The Mechanization of Mining JoHN L. LEWIS' demand for the expansion of the coal miners' welfare fund may be the prelude to a demand for a fund for substantial "severance" pay for miners...
...For a time, during the palmy days of the New Deal, lawyers were supposed to be in disrepute...
...None of the business people will employ him...
...The chairman of the committee, Wright Patman of Texas, and the head of the so-called "monopoly sub-committee," Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, both were vigorous advocates of a fight on monopoly...
...During the war a number of anti-trust prosecutions were suspended on the grounds of wartime necessity...
...college teachers, etc' But tha swheel hat turned...
...agriculture only four percent...
...journalism wiU'cdntribute six percent...
...The Latin bulla, ball, developed in Italian the variant form balla...
...There is probably a need for some authoritative body to keep after the subversive fringe and the elusive borers-from-within who haven't actually done enough to get haled into court—and to do this in line with the spirit and letter of the Bill of Rights...
...Many mines are .low largely mechanized, but despite, mechanization the output per miner is five times higher in strip mines...
...In the new SenateHhere are 64 lawyers, out of 96 membersXThirteen are businessmen, nine from publishing, four from agriculture, one a banker...
...The abolition of rationing has been postponed...
...Our voting it now by slips of paper, or by machine...
...In other words, tht figures for 1946 at •gainst "1940 may actually represent the degree of Inflation in the tlx yean period...
...His constituency is a large grtfup of rural counties in the Midwest...
...They have shown plenty of enthusiasm in hunting for subversive activities which take their color from Communism...
...In Russia, how...
...hence, the papal bull...
...Which leads us to voice an earnest hope that its record will lie defter than thnt of its predecessors, the so-called Dies and WoodRankin committees...
...They have cried "Wolf...
...Zhdanov's speech on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution called for "serious and heavy sacrifices" on the part of the people...
...There are a number of towns, but most of them are middlesized, dominated by the local bank or real estate interests...
...Ballot and bullet have the same origin...
...tditot of The New Leadet and of the magazine Common Sense, now member, of the Social Science Faculty of the College of ike University of Chicagi Inflation in Soviet Planned Economy By Daniel Bell THE most tantalizing aspect of the planned economy in Russia is 'the definite inflation- that has taken place in the last several years, an inflation which has knocked the official ¦tate budget into a cocked hat.* In a capitalist economy based largely on bidding in a market, inflation means rising prices because of e x c e s s demand and inadequate supply...
...Certainly the GOP is not in favor of an anti-monopoly probe...
...but we still (peak of the secret ballot as a safeguard of democracy...
...If the Soviet Union had peace, it could afford to slow down the tempo of heavy industry expansion and provide more goods for its people...
...A lawyer interested in building a practice has to see that his clients are not antagonized...
...if not he blackballed him...
...Labor—none...
...The Secretary of War was given the power, in several instances, to exempt certain companies from anti-trust clauses...
...Etch voter (aa in, say, the College of Cardinals) had a white ball and a black ball...
...Stateowned trusts are demanding higher prices from other state-owned trusts exclusively under the pressure of increases in the cost of production...
...If the Soviet rulers can keep alive the fear of encirclement and capitalist aggression, they may succeed...
...a basket was passed around...
...Labor is too weak or apathetic to employ him on a retainer basis...
...But they have evidenced little interest in the "hate groups" and the supernationalistic movements which incline toward totalitarianism of the Right...
...The scheme of compulsory direction of State reserves of labor which have been in a ijtate of mobilization since 1939 will continue...
...There Is every Indication that the Increasing mechanization of mines and more Important the growth of strip mining means widespread changes in the employment pattern in the coal mining industry...
...REFORM THESE REFORMERS .With un eight-point program announced by its chairman, Representative J. Parnell Thomas (R) of New Jersey, the new House Committee on un-American Activities starts on its job...
...If the western powers give tangible evidence of a desire for peace—and succeed in getting that message across convincingly to the Russian people—then peace may be saved...
...The Small Business Committee was a special committee and its life expired January 1. Congress has to renew the work of the committee and vote it appropriations...
...Yet the budget estimates for 1946 were given to the Supreme Soviet by Finance Minister Zverev only in tha middle of October, six months later than in 1945...
...We have frequently been critical of these committees, not of their professed purposes but of their methods...
...It is the activity of conturners that creates inflation...
...The pace of change, depends largely on the role of strip mining...
...cent of the total expenditures...
...Tho candidate's name was called...
...In this effort it was aided by strong Congressional support mobilized by the - ---------- — House Small Business" Committee...
...But its start is not encouraging.' The chairman is reported mentioning Communism four times in his prepared statement, but didn't get around to the Ku Klux Klan and the Columbians until queried by a reporter...
...The most important fact is that the price rise has come in the "most rigidly controlled sectors of the Soviet economy," largely in the various branches of heavy industry—coal, metallurgy and machinebuilding...
...X\'L" of the by-products of the Republican control of Congress will probably be the demise of the anti-monopoly fight...
...Politics was to be dominated by social, workers, newspaper men, labor 'leader...
...It it likely that Lewis may raise this issue before long...
...Ballot, the, little ball used in voting...
...This decrease may be due to the wear and tear of industrial equipment or the weariness of the workers, or probably both...
...The situation became so severe that the publication of the Russian budget was., delayed more than six months...
...How far the Russian people will go along, in peacetime, with this program of sacrifice is the key question...
...It is even likely that the committee itself may not be continued...
...Nowadays we have radio bulletin* about bullets and ballots: the press, the vote, sind warfare — all caught in terms front one Latin word...
...The most important fact about this heavy lawyer contingent in Congress is that most of them are dependent upon business accounts for their livelihood...
...The Department of Justice's anti-trust division has been seeking to reopen several cases and push the prosecution...
...In his speech to the Supreme Soviet, Zverev pointed to an undefinable element of price inflation and told the Soviet that the budget statements depend to a large extent on whether the inflationary tendency can be stopped...
...Law—fhe Pathway to Pol/tic* If you desire a political career, the best path is still through law...
...the Economist aakt...
...They have violated some of tho very freedoms they claim to protect by their broad accusations and besmirching of reputations on flimsy evidence, and by their recourse to "star chamber" questioning...
...In some areatt, legislation forbids strip mining, and the operators are fighting back...
...The ind of Anti-Trust...
...It may be this new committee will measure up...
...But this does not actually show how sharply the Soviet budget reflects war preparations, for the weight of the National Economy budget is largely in heavy industry which is needed for armaments...
...The increase in the cost of production has been due primarily to a decrease of efficiency, by a fall in the productivity1 per worker, thus registering higher costs...
...The Russian budget, as reported by the Economist, in its basic outline is as follows: 1 (In billion, el roubUi) IMS IMS Ikl Revenue.........--------------- ltOJ 301 333.4 Expenditures .____._ 174.3 SM 3193 Defense----------------, 58 in 72 National Economy__»7.t 743 lot ¦ocisl Services_______43 tri 83 « Do the higher figures represent an Increase in real values or real economic activity...
...Some unlont htve fought for welfare fundi which would be uted to pay lump sums to men who find themselves permanently displaced became of technological change...
...The Russian budgetary year begins on January 1st...
...The price, therefore, reflects the quality of work and machinery represented in the commodity...
...The permanent lay-off of half poses a sellout problem for the men and the union...
...Government by vote, and government by force...
...In extreme cases, the cost of production exceeded the planned price by as much as 100 percent...
...so often that should they now sound a real alarm they would find it widely discounted...
...If he wanted that candidate, he dropped in the white ball...
...If he tried to go back and practice in his home town, he couldn't make a living...
...Twelve percent are businessmen...
...fhfr.r,est, miscellaneous...
...Hence alto two diminutives...
...Bullet, the little ball shot from a gun...
...The Latin word bulla, applied to the ball ot wax scaling the Pope's messages, wat transferred to tha messago Itself...
...Some observers, extrapolating the employment data reported b;' the Bureau of Mines, lay that the decline In the number of miners In the course of the next decade may he at high at 50 percent...
...Since economic activity in 1940 could not have been, greater than in 1940—it it the objective of the pretent five-year plan that Industry should reach ltt prewar lcvel-tthe over-all increase in all items . of expenditure and revenue compared with 1940 mutt represent an Increase ' in nominal and not in real values...
...Their investigators have at times been given so free a rein that they seemed to forget all sense of responsibility—even to the committee which employed them...
...With Republican control of the House, both will lose their positions as committee heads...
...They have thus raised up a fog of confusion in which real subversive elements can hide themselves...
...Consequently, he took a government job which pays him near as much as his $10,000 Congressional salary...
...It's an area worth watching...
...Inasmuch as in the Russian economy prices arc not set by the market but by a planning commission, the major element in the price of an item is its cost of production...
...WORDS AND OUR WAYS By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY, author, DICTIONARY OF WORD ORIGINS Two theories of conduct, two ways of living, are caught in two words from a tingle source...
...Many communities oppose strip mining since H creates huge exposed, ugly gaps in the countryside...
...And the new chief investigator is one of tho old staff set up under Chairman Martin Dies...
...Defense still absorbs directly 23 per* This analytit it bated on the material on the Russian budget carried in the London Economitt for October 20, »<e...
...j! * In**n6 Present House, lawyers will constitute 56 percent of the 435 members...
...Take the case of a leading liberal Congressman—a lawyer—who will not be in the present Congress...
...In any event, technological change is leaving its mark on the mines...
...Editorial in the Christian Science Monitor, Jan...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
