Show i I A 7 c Released bt t Western i ni w m n 10 1 SINESS lU-SINESS MUST l OIIN N HOOKS TO INDUSTRIAL U n nIs n nis Is e 1 PI to secrecy se p to 10 11 II n II nc-c nc ewes es and methods of I Thit is a part of our fi h p e pu ea u I. 1 a 1 we I system s There Thrle is othi i t ii tI i i I IOn regarding the n 1 nit it t I nn n industry especially a n Im M- M c. c bOIl bin to which the owners S tb I A iM sr investments have pros prof pl Ilo-d Ilo the plants and tools the works worl s. s lId and the consumers ot of Its products product lILt the lw public are arc entitled to II t mess 1 That information pertains pertain perla l to costs casts co ts and profits in the production if f f what shat we buy bu Such informal inn innis is s not 11 the 1110 sole ole of ment which in the th end is but the employees ees of the owners the thc stock holders With costs coots and profits Known Imo there is u a firm limi foundation on which to base lIa e both wages and prices A foundation which I workers must mu t and the buying public will I ill recognize c. Neither 1 are arc willing I to take merely man man- managements management's managements management's word for these the e. e They want to be shown hown Management 1 a 1111 cannot anard to tobe tobe tobe be arbitrary on these e points as were Here the railroads railroad morn than thi half a century ago The rail rail- railroads railroad's railroads railroad's roads road's public be damned policies brought for them dras drastic drastic tic regulatory legislation The same kind of a policy polle on In the time part pa rt of Industrial management will result rl In the time same me kind of legislative c treatment Senator Knowland's proposal is out a move in that direction The California senator would open the books of industry to both capital and labor and that means to the general gen gen- general general eral public as well It would make makeI I the wage basis with ad ad- adjustments upward or downward at regular intervals It would make labor a partner in industry With that should be coupled such regulatory legislation as Is needed to 10 make labor responsible for Cor un un- unJustified Justified strikes slowdowns and andi work ork stoppages Regulating the partners capital and management would not be fair without regulation tor for that third partner labor Through such regulation that silent partner the consumer would get gel l fair air treatment THE AMOUNT of the federal government taxes to be collected I in 1946 1046 represents an average of for each of our million men mea women and children It 1 ly Iy or tr t ear e 1 y i will pay approximately of a rt average share Industry and business bl iness may sign the checks but the thc amounts thus paid are arc and must be added to the price of the com com- commodities commodities commodities we buy We the consumers con con- consumers sumers pay the tax on production and distribution though the poli poU- politicians politicians would have us think we wedo wedo wedo do not Such are the hidden taxes HOW MUCH OF THE MASS value of Df education lies In the teaching of ot the three Rs R's and how much in the I rills to which much time and at at- I is given in our schools RECALLS VISIT ISIT TO U. U S. S TYPICAL FAMILY HOME lE THE HERBERT HOOVER home homen on n the campus of Stanford university sity at Palo Alto Calif has been presented to the university by for former TIer nor President Hoover as a memo memo- ial real to the late Mrs Hoover The tern reporting that gift recalled or or me the pleasant visits I had enjoyed In that home as the guest of f President and Mrs Hoover What Whal a i i typical American home It was now low livable and inviting with noth nothing nothing ing ng suggesting formality The den denof of f Mr Hoover was an ideal spot or an after I luncheon cigar an en en- enjoyable I loable informal give and take dis dis- discussion of the state of the nation past Dast present and future On the table able In the informal living room lay ay the family album Mrs Hoovel displayed the pictures to Mrs Pat Patterson terson Lerson Photos Ph tos of the children at all different growing up stages along with those of cousins aunts anc uncles It carried me back to 10 days as a boy in an Iowa parsonage where the same kind of an albun was a family treasure There were no frills or fancy fixings no display of wealth other than a wealth 01 of mind and true Americanism in thai that Hoover home It was genuinely genuine American In eVery elery way and wit wil serve as a fitting memorial to oni who In the White While House as firs lady and in her Palo Alto home so 80 fully typified the best of Amerl can womanhood THANKS TO TilE THE generosity of congress the law reducing the tax on profits Is effective e January 1 I 1946 Because of that the haberdasher assures me he be will have a full stock of mens men's furnishings by February 1 1 Had congress been a bit more con con- considerate considerate and made that effective date December 1 I 1945 I would have ha ve received as Christmas presents those things so badly needed instead of having ha to buy them That would have been beena a real congressional Santa Claus |