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Show 1 1 THIS BUSINESS SUSAN THAYER ftf-i ftf-i V SPIRIT OF OUR FOREFATHERS "Now, that's the proper spirit," said my great aunt Matilda the other day when she read in the paper that story about the new effort being made to avoid labor conscription. The management-labor-agriculture agreement on manpower. "It's the real American way of doing things the people concerned con-cerned in an emergency get together to-gether and fix things up instead of looking to the government for a solution. "Yes," she went on, "if the men who work in the factories and those who managed them, together togeth-er with the farmers who produce so much of the necessary raw materials, ma-terials, really put their heads together, to-gether, as they seem to have done in this pledge they've just signed, I'm sure we'll come through this crisis without having somebody in Washington tell us where we must work and how. "I'm an old woman now, and maybe I'm just oldfashioned, but lit seems to me that the more we I stand on our own feet the better ! off we are and the better off we will be when the war is won. It was the spirit of self-reliance individual initiative that made America great, and it's this same spirit that can make her greater still in the years to come. "When there was danger of an attack by the Indians, did our pioneer forefathers ask the' government gov-ernment what to do? Certainly not! They got together, decided what to do and then did it. "From this account in the paper, pa-per, it looks as if the same kind of thing is happening today. A grave danger threatens the danger dan-ger of having to draft men, and perhaps women, into industry. So the leaders of three of the greatest great-est forces in this country have come together. They have discussed dis-cussed what to do, agreed on cooperation, coop-eration, and pretty soon we're going go-ing to see results!" |