Show N 14 1 1 i t released by western newspaper union GIVE IVE AMERICANS THE HE FACTS WE TALK ABOUT BILLIONS as we re formerly talked about millions or and n ot one of us including the most intelligent of our public men has any idea of what a billion really is we talk about a 65 billion dollar debt and none ot of us can visualize such a sum or apply it to ourselves in an interview a short time ago joseph W martin publisher ot of a small daily newspaper in massachusetts leader of the reau republican alican minority in the house ot of representatives and national republican chairman I 1 interpreted that debt for us as individuals he said it meant the individuals share in that debt men women and children amount ed to for each family of five the amount is 2465 the annual interest charge each individual pays is 1275 and for each family of five it is it is certainly time that governmental I 1 operations be interpreted so we average individuals and that is is practically all of the american people can understand just what is on give the american people the facts so they can understand them and the american philosophy oi of government will be maint maintained affied 0 HONOR ALSO DUE TO CREATORS OF WEALTH WE ERECT MON MONUMENTS and establish shrines to the memory of our distinguished scientists soldiers statesmen musicians artists inventors preachers and educators but we have only condemnation for those americans who have aided in creating our national wealth col john jacob astor and commodore vanderbilt as representative of past generations amassed great fortunes represented by new fields of endeavor that meant more jobs a higher standard of living when they died what they had created remained for us to use it was a part of the national wealth in the nearer past were such men as cyrus mccormick john D rockefeller james J hill marshall field P D armour and many others regardless of our opinions of them as individuals they created wealth and opportunity that is today being shared and enjoyed by thousands of americans we erect no monuments monument sto to them but they contributed much to america today men have jobs they and their families live in comfort on the basis of an eyer increasing standard because those men lived they took nothing away with them what they created they left for posterity such men were the builders of our american industry our american prosperity ORGANIC CHEMISTRY THE laboratories of am american eri universities have accomplished many wonderful results in the way of scientific research our sta state te universities especially should give greater attention to the field of organic chemistry it offers a solution for the american farm problem through organic chemistry we can probably find many industrial uses for farm crops we are now producing or find new crops which will fit into industry and which can be grown instead of the continuous production of a surplus of present crops an expressed demand on our universities versi ties and the legislatures providing funds for their operation would undoubtedly tend to greater efforts along these lines and prove beneficial to american farmers 0 0 0 THE AMERICAN workman should certainly have the opportunity of working without having to pay a gangster for the privilege 0 0 CAUSE OF STRIKE OUR STANDARD of living is determined ter mined by the national annual income the income of the federal government from income and corporation po ration taxes is from the sa same in e source whatever affects the national income directly or indirectly affect affects ts e each a ch 0 of I 1 us every strike in american plants reduces the annual national income in his book the dead hand of bureaucracy reau cracy lawrence sullivan quoting from a congressional report says the cost of each strike Is per man day on that basis the ford strike for example involving men for 10 days took out of the national income for each day or a total of that made a serious dent in our ou r national income for 1941 and each one of us paid a part of it efficiency REQUIRED THE MOST extravagantly operated business in this count country ry is is government ern ment it is not to be expected that government can operate what is now privately operated business as efficiently as that business is i being operated without that efficiency we will destroy business destroy our national wealth reduce our individual vidual incomes and our I 1 standard of living to destroy business means putting all of us on the rocks |