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Show THIS BUSINESS iJI SUSAN THAYER MfUL TDK ONE THING THAT MATTKKS The factories of America are working full time again double time, in many cases, as thousands of men and women go to new jobs each week. There is no need now to "make work" for people. Instead, In-stead, the problem is to find people peo-ple for jobs that must be done If defonse production Is to go forward for-ward according to schedule or ahead of schedule aw Mr. Knud-sen Knud-sen of the Orfice of Production Management in Washington asks. We are all vitally concerned with this defense effort housekeepers house-keepers as well as factory managers, man-agers, school children as well as bankers, ministers as well as draftees in the army. Upon the success of this effort depends not only our physical safety but those "ancient liberties" that have been ours ever since we became a nation. go back to the other job. Today our national house is in danger and nothing should distract us, until we have enough defense equipment to make it safe. To be sure we must keep our family life as normal as possible. That's part of keeping the country safe. We must take good care of our children child-ren and give them a feeling of security. se-curity. But do we need to go in for costly national improvements when we haven't yet built the guns and tanks, the ships and planes, we need for safety? Should we keep on pouring money into non-emergency projects when we need billions for defense? Women see things like this because be-cause we know from our experience exper-ience with the family budget that money can't go two places at once and that a big job or expense means going without a lot of small, pleasant, but non-essential things for a time. Of course none of us can even imagine living in a community where we can't say what we think, no matter how many other people may see it tiuite differently. We just don't understand hesitating to go to the church we believe in and we can't conceive what it would he like to be governed by people we didn't put Into office ourselves. our-selves. But the right to live as free men and women with the privilege of self-expression Is not inevitable. It was achieved through the centuries by effort and sacrifice. sacri-fice. We see now that it can only be preserved through similar effort ef-fort and sacrifice. Right now this freedom of ours is in grave danger dan-ger and until it is safe, nothing else matters very much. If there were a fire in your neighborhood and sparks were flying toward your house, you wouldn't go on building an annex or putting up new curtains at that moment. You'd drop whatever improvements im-provements you were working on to do what was necessary to save your house. After that you could |