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Show UTAH INDUSTRY MAPS STATE DEFENSE CLINIC "Total Preparedness For Today To-day and Tomorrow," will be the discussion subjeet at a defense eJinic to be sponsored jointly by ! the National Association of Man-' ufacturers and the Utah Manufae-1 turers' association May 6 in the ! Hotel Utah, Stanley J. Stephenson, executive secretary of the U. M. A., announced Saturday. Officers of the national and state associations will meet with several hundred Utah industrialists industrial-ists to study results of a recently completed survey of Utah's potential poten-tial defense production facilities and review possible effects of the world situation on tomorrow's American Am-erican institutions. Leslie Squires, general manager 1 of the Utah Fire Clay company, j and president of the U. M.- A.,1 chairman of the sponsoring com-1 mittee, said Saturday that seldom I in the history of private enterprise in America has there been greater j need than today for clear vision, 1 swift, but sure-footed action, and sound industrial statesmanship on the part of business management. I "Best thinking of the nation's business executives, combined experience ex-perience of men with varied problems, prob-lems, free and frank discussion of mutual interests and responsibilities responsibili-ties are essential to insure the future fu-ture of free enterprise and the way of life of which it is an integral in-tegral part," Mr. Squires said. Wpltr d. Fuller, president of uie N. A. M. and president of the Curtis Publishing company, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pa., who may be a speaker speak-er at the Salt Lake defense clinic, collaborated in the announcement of the clinic, sending a statement to the effect that American industry indus-try can protect free enterprise best by demonstrating that it can produce on a huge scale at high efficiency. Such production, he said, will pave the way for a higher high-er standard of living after the present crisis. |