Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 32 | Mitchell Man Finds Slacker among Peevish

MITCHELL MAN FINDS SLACKER AMONG PEEVISH Believes Kickers Just as Bad Badas as the Military l Shirker t p until the time the government o toot took nt over o cr the railroads said R R. R C C. vice Ice president ot or the Mitchell Motors company compan Inc of oC R Ritchie RA- RA I cine chie WIs I most of oC us were Inclined to think that the term slacker could be applied only to the young youner fellow between 21 1 1 and 31 11 who woul wouldn't nt s say r good good-by to Ills his best girl grab rab a gun and hike for a training camp It was pretty th tough on nil the young man rn n In rr 00 question but In the last fe few weeks j I it seems to me that his Ills lonesomeness lone i 1 has haa been relieved e somewhat and that he ho now has company that he never could have ha been associated with other other- wise For Jor instance some ome fellow beats It to the depot and finds that the train he lie was going to take has been cancelled cancelled can can- celled b by tho government go in order to tomake tomake make male room for coal or shipments shipments ship ship- ments and md the transportation of troops He lie puts up an m awful holler and In doing so Just yells ells himself Into the slacker class shoulder to shoulder with the fellow who preferred to knit to do his bit bit What about tho tiro men who got up upon upon upon on their theil- hind legs and tyre the very skies asunder when Dr Garfield Gar asked us to help save e coal to help to win the war Slackers SI 1 I should sa say say- so I 0 Theres There's one consolAtion anwa anyway the hot air of oC stickers slackers rs of oC this typo type wasn't entirely wasted Look around you rou and you'll find business s slackers b by the dozens who vho are arc peeved cd because they're on earth because the war ar was wa started because were we're In the war and because they're pinched a little now and then b by steps the tho government o must take lake to win the war I If we wo dont don't win the war wale I wouldn't give gho a plugged nickel for an any of their thell businesses I A A few manufacturers are using the 1 t Sa Sam S arma r 1 i I t 1 n 1 I i z L s I Ir tl tJ I s J Auto Co I II I war ar as ns an excuse to raise their prices prices prices' unnecessarily The They r belong in the thee front rank of tho the slacker Blacker brigade right back of the tho fellows with the yellow ellow flag Clag Price Raiser er Condemned Some Sono others haven't ha raised raised the prices of or their product but instead are ale skimping skimping- just a little bit They're There cheating They're There not putting their best materials or their best efforts into what the they offer octer to the tho American people The They seem eem to think that an any old t thing ln will do in war time Instead o of looking the thing squarely and honestly in the tho face and realizing that the theer er very best Is not half haIr good enough h In this fight to pr preserve O a nation Those o follows fellows are entitled to commissions commissions commissions com missions' missions in tho the slacker outfit and the they wont won't have to go o to any training camp to get et them either cither Fortunately however most manu manu- In America are arc true patriots and are arc conducting their plants on as aa near tho the same sarno before the tho war ba basis basis' 18 as Is humanly possible The They realize th that t every last one of ot us must do cIo his share hare Th They y realize that no matter how un uncomfortable un- un comfortable a an and Inconvenient things may sec hero were we're infinitely better of off than the men In the trenches Out there In our big plant at Racine we wo have ha realized for months that our patriotic duty was to bund build Mitchell cars better than ever before before and and theres there's room for improvement in tn an anything any any- thing manufactured In tho the world world and and to 10 sell them at a reasonable profit Were We're not after war profits Were T going to keen keep the price urice of Mitch Mitchell cars ars down down as long as It is ib 18 possible t to todo todo do Jo so o an and at t the same time build bund them theta Letter better stronger an and more powerful than before Wed 01 like to see sea every everyman everyman everyman man and woman of ot America behind a steering wheel wheel wheel-we wo want to do our out share to put the tho United States State on wheels for tor then with our great nation moving along at top speed smoothly and steadily we can rush this thing thine through to a a. successful triumphant finish why were we're working night an and da day on little things that might make tho the Mitchell a better car a stronger er car car car-a a business s mans man's as It were to enable him to go over the top and destroy those who beca of their slacker characteristics ar are unconsciously trying to undermine American business s. s 11 T I 1 I i I. I A 1 A LU to 11 organization organization 1011 from the me Ule president down to the last stock stock- chaser Is opposed to slackers no matter what breed Were We're out to do all w we can to win In the war either through our individual efforts or through our prod prod- Of Ot course we wo cant can't shoot slackers slack slack- ers out there thero at Racine and ande we e cant can't throw them into prison but we can car cartic tic tie the can to them and we do that too whenever wo we find rind one ono in our midst FRIARS ns GO CO TO CAMPS The men men who have Joined the trainIng train train- lag InS camps from Akron Ohio the nations nation's nations nation's na tion's Uon's chief rubber elt city are arc stationed principally at Camp Sherman In Ohio and Camp Sheridan in Alabama More than two thousand of these men have han como come come come- from the factory and and off offices ices ol or orthe the Goodyear Tire Rubber Company And this company recognizing th thE great need of providing proper entertainment enter entel for tor the soldiers as a part or o 0 the thee program of maintaining their excellent excellent ex morale and to bring to Its owr yr men In tho the camps an evenings evening's enter entertainment with a homo home tinge has seni I th Goodyear Goodear Friars to both of ot the these then 1 J camps camp