Show MERRY ROUND ROUN G GROUND ROUND Kaiser Paints Glorious Steel Outlook Editors Editor's note While note While hUo Drew Pearson Is la on a s brief vacation n his column will bo ho written by columnists today's today's guest by byn n Henry nry J. J Kal Kat Kalser er the tho famous wet west coast industrialist and amI shipbuilder r. r By HENRY J. J KAISER SAN FRANCISCO During FRANCISCO During the war I have c come t fo know something of the Wash Washington that t Is 13 covered In this column What understanding of its problems problems problems lems I have acquired stems from my discovery that th the war war depa department department de de- pa ment navy and war war production production production pro pro- board consist of a lot lotof lotof of at Individual men each a and d de e every ery one doing his hrs best Criticism of at their performance should be tempered by comprehension comprehension comprehension compre compre- hension of the fact that In our free society the Initiative In domestic affairs should originate elsewhere outside of ot the government government government gov gov- in the ranks o of man man- After all If the government were too efficient when it takes over the functions of business it would be difficult to compete with it The chorus of complaint arises largely from those citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens who have lost their taste for competition Little Mayo Clinics Let Clinics Let me again talk about health com health com competitive p health At the Invitation tion of the Pepper committee of the senate senat I h have v drafted abill for federal legislation to achieve competitive health This bill has In mind the future and the hopes of ot the half million veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans of war who are going to come home It would empower the federal housing agency which has financed the ow ownership ownership owner owner- er- er ship of nearly a million American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean homes to guar guarantee 90 I of local bank loans to build and equip hospitals This financing would be made available to groups that undertake to provide provide provide pro pro- vide prepaid medical care Here is s an opportunity In Inthe Inthe Inthe the forces doctors have learned to work and live together together together to- to gether in group practice Under Under 9 the bill bUl they could Invest the funds set up for them by the G. 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I bill of rights in their own group practice clinics at home Together 10 of them could make makeup makeup makeup up a pool pool poolo o of and get a aloan aloan aloan loan of t to set up much needed medical facilities I can see little Mayo rayo clinics springing up all over the nation Founded on the sound economics of prepaid medicine these clinics would operate as going business enterprises competing to reduce their cost Improve the quality and expand the scope of their service to the public Now let me talk about steel Here Is a glorious prospect The great steel corporations by virtue virtue virtue vir vir- vir- vir tue of the fact that steel ingot capacity has been Installed d inthe Inthe in inthe the west are now going to have competition In the press this week Ernest Weir was the latest eastern steel man to confess his concern over western tion Two great new steel plants have been built in the west The Kaiser steel plant at Fontana CaL Cat and the plant at Geneva Utah These two plants will compete with eastern steel because western business and industrial interests are uniting to keep these plants independent and to manage them efficiently in the economic interest of the west and of oC the nation The industrialization of the west has rolled forward swiftly during the war Its population has haa Increased 10 logo the trained Industrial labor force has been multiplied two and one-half one times Umes its Industrial plant has been doubled The west now demands equal partnership inthe In Inthe Inthe the U. U S S. S industrial economy This is good competition Steel in the west is the prime mover In this surge of indus indus- Steel is a seed Industry A western steel price based on the cost of ot steel production production production pro pro- in the back yard of the west will generate the creation of ot a host hosto of new steel-consuming steel industries Increased consumption consumption consumption tion of manufactured goods Inthe in inthe inthe the west means additional employment employment employment em em- and production over and above any estimate that has been made of the e nations nation's post postwar war prospects If It the west can achieve its Industrial promise It will import even more steel than before from the east This is my challenging thought to all eastern producers The consumers of the west will not only continue to employ the workers of ot Youngstown and Pittsburgh but will provide new jobs for additional workers at Fontana and Geneva Workers are after all the customers of ct industry Industry h has never had so many customers custom custom- ers as it has today To satisfy their demand for the goods of life Ufe Industry must k keep cp going at full blast The Tho American people do not have to lo retreat from the pinnacles of production to which they have climbed during the thew w war r The vision of at management and the skill of labor are challenged challenged challenged chal chal- to compete in the free American market and by competition competition com com- petition to keep our nation growing |