IP :rj-iipT:wTir?--l,a LJ Iheleusea u ftesiern Newspaper Liiuuu.1 PRODUCTION IS THE KEY TO OUR WEALTH EACH ARTICLE of merchandise produced in American factories ev- , ery automobile, suit of clothes, ag- rieultural implement, radio and the j thousands of other things men build : and use adds to the national wealth. I The more we produce, the wealthier j we become as a nation, and as individuals. in-dividuals. Each pay day in each factory marks a step in the distribution of j the national wealth. Of the value of all production, from 63 to 70 per cent goes to Die men employed in the factories. fac-tories. That is labor's dividend. Another An-other 24 to 27 per cent goes to government gov-ernment as taxes municipal, county, coun-ty, state and federal. What is left goes to those who provide the tools the factory buildings build-ings and the machines and to those who manage the business and find the customers. That has been the method of distribution dis-tribution of America's wealth throughout all of our history. Under that method the distribution to the Individual has increased materially, despite an ever-increasing population. popula-tion. We, as Individuals, cannot get more unless we collectively produce more. We cannot produce more by breaking down the industries in which we collectively do the producing pro-ducing and from which we individually individ-ually receive our share of what we help to produce. e e e COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION AFTER AMERICA'S ENTRY into the first World war, a Committee of Public Information was organized, with George Creel a chairman, and the secretary of state, secretary of war and secretary of the navy as the other members. Creel did not attempt to tell newspaper news-paper editors what they culd or could not print. Through his hands went such information in-formation as the government wished to give to the public and he controlled con-trolled all war pictures from the allied al-lied lines. His big job was to maintain main-tain an enthusiasm for the war in which we were then engaged. According to Walter Davenport in Collier's, we will soon have another Committee on Public Information, the main job of which will be to create an enthusiasm for America's participation in the second world war. There is a difference. PRIDE OF THE NAVY A FOUR-YEAR PRODUCT THE FIRST REAL battleship the United States has built since we agreed with the rest of the world to cut down our navy, and actually scuttled some of our ships to keep that promise, will go into commission commis-sion in April. The new ship is the North Carolina, Caro-lina, the largest and most modern fighting ship this country has ever built. A 35,000-ton monster, fitted with every appliance that will aid in making her a destructive terror to an enemy. She will carry a crew of 1,450 officers and men. It has taken nearly four years to build her and it would take four years to build another. We have not yet learned the secret of mass production produc-tion in battleship building. e a a THE AFTERMATn A MINNEAPOLIS MAN who had traveled through the airplane and ship producing towns of California, asked a native business man: "What will happen when the demand de-mand for defense equipment is over?" The reply: "Just what happens when you stick a pin In a toy balloon." bal-loon." The same question and the same answer will apply to every other state. e e e THREE GENERATIONS A FEW DAYS AGO a disheartened man committed suicide in Los Angeles. An-geles. His grandfather had amassed a fortune of several millions, but the last of it was gone, and the grandson killed himself. It was a case of "three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves." That keeps continuously redistributing America's wealth whether the third generation commits suicide or otherwise. oth-erwise. a a a PHONY DEALS WASHINGTON TELLS us there must be no profiteering In our defense de-fense preparations. Then we are told of funny or phony land deals, of funny or phony prices In the location loca-tion of training camps. Wonder if a real Investigation might reveal some profiteering or something else, a a e PATRIOTISM AND POLITICS PATRIOTISM and partisan politics do not mix well. Patriotism says we must build ships and other defense equipment where they can be built best and quickest; that we must locate training camps at places most advantageous and best suited for the purpose. Partisan poliUcs says our defense equipment must be manufactured where It will produce the most votes, or where those votes are most needed, and that training camps must be located with the same purpose In view