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Show have always seen eye to eye with the President on some domestic affairs, but on his foreign policy pol-icy and leadership we're patriotically patriot-ically behind our Commander-in-Chief. "With industry the only source of the weapons of victory, the necessity for public confidence in it is greater than ever. It does not seek immunity from sacrifices of war, or a moratorium from justicenor jus-ticenor does it want to escape constructive criticism. But It cer tainly does warrant an armlsa of sniping, smearing public t, tacks for the duration." And there you have It-fa management and men roufcn under Free Enterprise ringing a bell again. U. S. Industry Rings Bell Again By GEORGE PECK We take pleasure in quoting below be-low a few of the things W. P. Witherow, president of the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers, Manufactur-ers, said in a recent speech. It is a cheering message: "I have spent much of my lifetime life-time in manufacturing . . . what I saw on the Coast opened my eyes to the modern alchemy of American Amer-ican industry when pushed to its utmost by war. What you see is next to unbelievable, but it makes you sleep much better at night especially on the threatened Pacific Pa-cific coast . . . plane factories, having already doubled their promise to the government, are fixing to double it again by the new year. . . "I found no indifference, no apathy, just men and women working hard with that 'come-hell-or-high-water' spirit; unsung heroes without medals disregarding disregard-ing th eold slow-down technique . . . from every quarter comes confirmation of the fact that the West Coast story of production for war is being matched all over this country. "We have Donald Nelson, him-. him-. self, for authority that American industry alone is now out-producing the Axis that by the end of 1942 we will have wiped out the advantage of ten years of accumulated accumu-lated Axis reserves. "Industry would not have been J able to accomplish that record had it not been for the forehanded policy of the President in seeing the early need for preparedness and selling the Idea to the American Amer-ican people. Industry may not |