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Show THIS BUSINESS & g SUSAN THAYER Jf'' t UT A TRUE STORY them to handle machine tools with the precision necessary to turn out the fine parts of an airplane. Hope stirred in the old heart. He started out from his daueh-' daueh-' ter's house one early morning to j apply for a job. But would they : take him? Or would they say he was too oKi? People said old men weren't wanted any more. And would they question his devotion to the United States because he had been born in a village in Ku-rope Ku-rope eighty years before? He needn't have worried. He got the job. American industry today is looking for skill and hiring it. The aue of a workman L-n't so important im-portant if he can do the job and hundreds of men who had retired are going back to work. Industry also recognizes the fact that today to-day devotion to the American way of life is not a matter of nationality nation-ality but of the individual's own love of freedom! Three of them went overseas with ; the American army and only one came back. j Now everything was different. ' He had been retired 10 years before be-fore and nobody thought he could do anything this time. Besides. ! there was the question of his nationality, na-tionality, j Then came the call for skilled i workmen. Men who had the train- j ing and experience that enabled He was foreign born and old. Eighty his last birthday with great-grandchildren to help celebrate cele-brate the occasion. Wide-awake, little Americans who teased him sometimes about coming from a country where they boss people around and believe that machine guns are more important than automobiles. au-tomobiles. But he loved America more than they did. Naturally. He knew what Americanism really means. Besides, he had sacrificed for this adopted country of his and sacrifice sacri-fice breeds love. As the clouds gathered and it became clear that America must prepare for any eventuality he was troubled. He wanted to play a part this time as he had 2 3 years before when the country had prepared for that other war. But he was younger then, at work ' in a factory tliat stopped making typewriters to turn out shell cases for 75 mm. guns and he had sons. |