Show 0 k so we na lessed b y western on A TYPICAL at MARINE WHO WANTED A FIG FIGHT THE TWO THINGS from which col kink beecher Dec cher united states marines derived greatest pleasure was to fish and to fight lie he could spend long days dayo on a fa evorite wisconsin lake and while ho he preferred a black bass he did not despise the lowly perch hut but oven even better than fishing to kink was a good scrap fighting with him la Is an avocation as well as a vocation lie he Is a from the ranks officer and has fought with the marines in france in nicaragua china haiti and other places the last time I 1 saw him was at quantico the marine barracks near washington where he was unhappy because there was no prospect of a fight I 1 last heard from him at shanghai ile he left there for manila some two weeks before pearl harbor I 1 trust he still lives even though he may be a prisoner of the japs but to be out of tho the light fight would be the greatest hardship that could befall him to me col kink beecher iles fles the united states marine corps GOVE government BONDS IN WAR TIME wp WE HAVE IN AMERICA today considerably more than twice as aa much currency in circulation as wo we had during world war 1 I and we then had some slight inflation but not enough to be ruinous during world war I 1 the public purchased the greater portion ol of the liberty bonds by the government as a result of special sales drives with a house to house canvass within the past ten years most of the government bonds issued have been sold to the banks with a smaller percentage to the insurance companies and the public when the banks buy they in turn use them additional bank note as a basis for currency and that accounts tor for our ever increasing money in circulation every increase in the amount of our circulating currency increases the danger of inflation the banks cannot take up the government issues without turning them into increased bank note currency that Is one of the reasons for the effort to sell the bonds to the public instead of to the banks the other reason Is to take out of the hands of the public money people would otherwise use in the purchase of commodities we cannot produce a sufficient amount of consumer commodities to meet such a demand when the public has money to buy more commodo com commodities than can be produced it pushes the prices up to inflationary levels the only other remedy is fixed prices and fixed prices will leave money in the hands of the people AMERICAN DU DEMOCRACY Al AND THE COMING PEACE MRS ROOSEVELT in the amerl can magazine tells us we are fighting tor for the privilege of revolutionizing the world on the lines of democracy mo cracy rather than permitting hitler to revolutionize it on the lines of german totalitarianism she says cays the war is but the first step ln in that revolution she does not say what the final stop step Is to be governor stassen of minnesota in a recent interview proposes several plans for the purpose he says of making the roosevelt churchill atlantic program a reality at the peace conference both give america something to think about and we should be a unit as to what we want by the time that peace conference meets meetha a few months or a few years from now to help us in the thinking it would be well if sumner blossom editor of the american magazine would find fl nd someone to interpret the type of world mrs roosevelt is expecting the revolution to produce IN 1941 THERE WERE on the roads of america of what the government considers non arity cars that is cars the government would not permit being replaced during the war Gov government emment experts figure that the war last until 1945 three more years the number of non priority cars then in operation would bo be down to what a dead place america Ax would be under such conditions let us hope the huns the japs and the are arc licked long before we reach such a point THERE IS ONE WAY of insuring re treads for your automobile tires fires get a job as an official of a labor union they are considered essential to the war effort but farmers salesmen merchants and others oi of the common people including work qs ers may walk CLASS consciousness OUT OF THE WAR we will achieve a freedom for which we are not fighting the huns or the japs out of the war we will achieve a freedom from that growing class consciousness there were those with selfish purposes encouraging a recognition of class and class distinctions any et ef fo fort rt along such lines is subversive to our ideals it has been only in recent years that we have recognized even in a small way y any nav y class distinctions |