Show Released by Western Newspaper iper Union DISTRIBUTION IS S oust OUK THE TIIE WAR has added to our knowledge of production but production pro is but a portion of the answer an sorer to our peace peacetime as well as our war time time problem The Thc greater problem is that of ot distribution If the war can show us a solution to the problem of distribution all the world will profit from that knowledge knowledge knowl edge in the peace time that is to come Since World War I America has produced great surpluses of food toad products that have gone to waste during years when millions were starving starving all all because we lacked a knowledge of distribution We could r ship to China for Cor example but did not know how to find a market in China Finding or creating a market with methods that will arrange arrange ar range for a purchase price are aU all aUa alla a part of distribution I The world needs not less production tion but more consumption There I is no reason for the destruction of Jt American wheat or Brazilian I coffee when they are arc needed by millions mil mu I lions who are hungry The need is for tor men statesmen and economists economists mists with the brains necessary for tor forthe forthe the solution of ot the distribution lem America has such men When they have been used and have solved the problem that comes to tous tous us as the greatest creditor nation they will have provided a a use for tor all the vast production of this nation nation na na- na tion and of at the world and the best assurance of maintaining world peace ARMY HOUR nOUR nOURIS IS SOLDIERS SOLDIER'S BOON Science has added greatly to the frightfulness of at war but science has also offered some compensations I well remember in 1918 how our boys in France were hungry for a word a voice from the homeland They would listen intently to the lightest most inconsequential chatter if expressed expressed ex ex- r pressed in the English they liked the American kind I thought of at that hunger of 1918 as I listened to the army hour on the It included included in in- eluded many typical American songs rendered by feminine or mixed choruses That hour goes to our Jur soldier boys wherever they may maybe maybe maybe be on the flung far-flung fronts throughout the world It is but one of the compensations compensations compensations com com- science has offered to fl frightfulness of war warto warto to 10 those who fight the battles It provides each day the word the voice from the homeland t I THIS TillS STANDS BETWEEN US USAND USAND USAND AND AXIS SLAVERY THEY WERE just two kids Neither had as yet passed his birthday As the friend who Introduced introduced intro Intro- me said they are not dry behind the ears But they were They had matured in the grim battle of Jf the Coral sea They had been on the Lexington One was a member of f the crew of a bomber plane The other was a member of a gun crew rew One had been slightly wounded wound wound- ed by a Jap machine gun bullet Both had gone overboard at the order order order or or- der to abandon ship and had floated about for an hour or more before being picked up up They were back in inthe inthe inthe the States for a rest period and both were tired of at the enforced idle idle- ness They wanted to be up and at atthe atthe atthe the Japs again The only thing they told me of at the fight and final sinking of the Lexington was of the free ice cream that was passed out just before the order to abandon ship was given They represent that young America which the Japs and nd the Huns and the cannot lick They and their kind stand between between be be- tween us and slavery AMERICA IS ONE OF BUT a few nations that has never known a dictator As a people we have never felt the lash of ot the dicta dictators dictator's tors tor's whip since as colonists of ot the English English Eng Eng- lish king our ancestors threw the tea into Boston bay It would be hard to imagine Americans countenancing countenancing countenancing counte counte- dictatorial government other other other oth oth- er than in war time and even then we demand the right of criticism and to pass judgment on the government government gov gov- government we create THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION at Washington tells congress where an annual saving amounting to 1803 1603 for each man woman and child in America can be made without in any way affecting the war expenditures or the effectiveness of the peacetime time operations of the government The total Is the tidy sum sura of But does congress congress con can gress want to save THE FIRST OF LAST JANUARY there were in the United States business establishments engaged in selling or servicing automobiles with over employees and with over one billion dollars a year in payrolls When we add to these figures the number of people employed em employed in building automobiles we can have some idea of what the automobile industry a creation of 01 only about 40 years means to the nation It was a product of ot the American system stem of free treo romped tion t I |