| Show h Released by Western Newspaper Ne Union WHITE W TE COLLAR WORKER IS TOE TILE FORGOTTEN MAN MANON MANON MANON ON A BIG munitions plant being built with government money at Wilmington Ill carpenters are paid 25 a day men trundling wheelbarrows or working with pick or shovel arc paid 16 and 17 a day In Chicago 50 miles away the clerical forces working in the of of- offices offices flees of business and industry are being paid from 17 to 35 a week The carpenters and laborers In Wilmington may and do do dress in coveralls they change shirts pos poSe possibly possibly sibly once a week they wear coarse shoes they enjoy the lower rentals of the rural dis dis- dis- dis The clerical worker In Chicago If he is to hold his job must have havea a clean shirt every day he must wear a white collar there must be bea a crease in his trousers his shoes must be kept cleaned and shined he must pay the much higher rent rent- als of the city His Income will II average about sixth one-sixth of that of the carpenter at Wilmington I To meet the Increasing ever-Increasing de de- demand demand de- de demand mand of taxes and labor l bor and to continuo continue to operate business and Industry have been forced to economize ec economize no- no mize in every possible way The white collar man has paid the bill He is the forgotten man of today WILL AID IN TilE THE FIGHT DOOR COUNTY Wisconsin that I strip of land that separates Lake Michigan from Green Bay and of which the town of Sturgeon Bay is the county seat scat was settled originally originally originally nally by Scandinavian Belgian and Dutch farmers The well-kept well farms of today made from the land from which their ancestors cut the heavy pine timber are in the hands bands of f the second and third generations of the original origin settlers These farm farm- farmers farmers farmers ers many of them with wi th kinfolks In Inthe Inthe inthe the countries enslaved by Hitler are enjoying the opportunity of building sub-chasers sub to destroy destro Ger Ger- German German German man submarines At the shipyards in Sturgeon Bay far removed from the scene of conflict is being built builta a fleet of the little boats that are destined to see service In the Atlan Atlan- Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic tic and the yards yards' are manned by Scandinavian Belgian and Dutch farmers HILLS HILLS' TAKE TO THE TilE A FEW NIGHTS AGO I sat In an audience the men of which consist consist- consisted I ed largely of big game hunters soldiers sol sol- soldiers soldiers diers of fortune explorers men explorers men who had bad been to the uttermost ends of the earth earth and whose lives have been filled IDled with raising hair-raising II ture The speaker of the evening was a little lithe happy-faced happy woman and andi i her subject was her mountain farm home In the Ozarks She talked about I the charming characteristics of the Ozark hills people and their simple uneventful lives of pet lambs and puppy dogs of quiet evenings be be- before before fore the fireplace in a log house of wild flowers dowers and fruits and she held that audience of he men as asno asno asno no lion hunter had ever held them She demonstrated that it is the sim sim- simple simple simple pleasures that have most ap ap- ap- ap peal The speaker was Mrs Marge Lyon author of Take to the Hills I I I HOME lE OF REAL CULTURE OUR GREAT CITIES have no monopoly on culture It is 15 not a prod prod- product product of the night club the cocktail lounge or the off-color off theatrical production It Is a product of the schools the churches chur hes of a clean clean- living ving loving home people such as I those found in the rural sections of America Culture does not breed l or It breeds love not hate Among a cultured class you do not find a subversive element seeking to destroy an es es- established established es- es established philosophy of government The Dies committee does not find enemies of our American form of government among our rural lation It is in the small town and andon andon andon on the farm where you find a love of country respect for its laws and its institutions It is there you find the intelligence that is the foundation foundation foundation tion of culture The American rural community is the real home h me of American culture NATIONAL INCOME THE department of ot commerce tells us the national income in 1902 amounted to and in 1940 it was In 38 years we had multiplied the nation nation- national al income more than four times times- we had more than four times as much to divide In 1940 than in 1902 That was accomplished despite wars and depressions It was accomplished under the American system of free fre competition com peti MORE THAN N JAP CAN CHEW WITH HIS BIG TEETH the little brown man mun ot of the Pacific will tind Md he has bitten oft olI more than b be b. can caD chew When the end Is reached the Japs will be back on their is lands The They will have lost Korea their foothold in China and Indo hide and the hundreds of small ull mandated Islands is ands In the Pa The war they so treacherous trey ly Iy started will wills set et them back k ot of to the th Perry and Ja Jan h as S great a aP nation n Uon as a World worM P s from the picture power will |
