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Show - 4 THIS BUSINESS & $h SUSAN THAYER W lj DON'T BE AFRAID OF CHANGE No matter what happens, let's I not be afraid! The world is changing chang-ing rapidly these days. So what? It wasn't altogether perfect in the past, remember. It's going to change a lot more before the dust settles down and we're back to normal again. And don't think that "normal" is going to be anything you ever knew before. It's bound to be different with the world pulled so close together by hundreds hun-dreds of new air routes, and with dozens of new test-tube miracles in everyday production. It can be much better and anyone who clings to the past is just out of luck. He or she will be like someone driving a horse in a long procession proces-sion of automobiles. Awful things are happening these days; cruel things. But wonderful won-derful things are happening, too. Just the other day in Pennsylvania a big steel plant closed down for half an hour so that every employee em-ployee could come into the plant arena and listen to the president of the company, the local CIO leader, a speaker from the National Nation-al Association of Manufacturers, and an ex-employee back from the South Pacific. It was -a thrilling occasion a hopeful occasion. The union representative was as enthusiastic en-thusiastic about the factory program pro-gram as the president himself. The men and women in that plant were really cooperating. Representatives from management and labor had sat down together and learned each other's viewpoints and the result was increased production, harmonious working conditions, and an' unswerving loyalty toward the objective every American should have today the winning of the war. There was a spirit of understanding and comradeship in that plant that was seldom found in the old days, and that presages a day of better understanding in industry. One reason this company is so successful is that its president is not afraid to change. He knows that times are different already and that the future will be something some-thing else again. But he isn't try-in try-in to hang on to the past or force things back to what they were in his father's time. He put it this way to a visitor the other day: "If a fellow keeps on fighting for some of the things that used to be, he is going to make impossible some of the things that can be." Let's give those "things that can be" a chance and have a better world!" |