| Show 7 Z i y i I 1 y released nela asad by western newspaper U union A REAL AL VETERAN LOOKS WE AN OLD GENTL GENTLEMAN EMAN largo of frame with bristling eyebrows heavy flowing flow ing mustache tousled hair and a kindly B smile mile and cheering word for all he meets has been spending the winter at san diego looking westward to those islands and countries to which american soldiers albors s and marines are arc moving against dinst our enemies maj george F itzgerald fitzgerald lee Is a veteran of that heroic 01 old d army that ought fought the indians through the dakotas montana wyoming nebraska k a kansas and tho the southwest and made those states safe for the plo who built them into great commonwealths ile he and his comrades of that army of the late seventies and early eighties made possible the peaceful cultivation of the farms of those states and the building of towns and cities it was a little army that pushed our frontier through to the western ocean george leo lee knew tho the hardships of long weary marches as an infantry soldier over the tha then almost trall less west the army in which he served did not travel on rubber tires but on the leather shod feet of each individual soldier george lee fought with general shutter shatter in cuba ile he went with funston to the philippines ile ha was in the expedition that broke the boxer revolution in china ile ho closed hla his military career in the world wa war r of 1817 1917 18 today lie he looks westward toward tho the philippines and his memories travel with the american forces that go to meet a new foe on fields he ha knows and fought over more than 40 years ago that valiant army of indian war days was limited in members and but few of them are left to us george lee Is typical of all that army represented I 1 eay envy him his me memories morles LABOR GENERALS AND INDUSTRY CONTROL AN EFFECTIVE ARMY cannot be composed posed entirely of generals an effective industrial organization cannot be composed entirely of superintendents or general managers in any organ organization z t on whether th er it b be e an army a factory or a farm there must be a boss someone whose word represents authority labor organizations today are demanding ni labor control of industry labor leaders would have the ilia workers control the factories that as a final analysis is tho the so called reuther plan tor for the automobile industry ford is employing something more than men under the reuther plan they would all be ba generals they would all be in a position to give orders and there would be ba none hone to follow orders each would quite rightfully expect to sit at the general managers desk the general manager would be selected by the workers and would be chosen as a matter of popularity rather than as a matter itei of ability it would be exceptional to find the worker who felt hla his place was on the assembly une line the efficiency of the assembly une line would disappear mass production which has made america the greatest producing nation in the world would be only a thing to think about production would drop to practically a vanishing point there would not be a car tor for every family with the passing of the automobile andus industry would pass a million or more jobs and labor the man who works would not have profited government not labor controls the factories of russia italy and germany in each of these countries the government is boss it is government that tells each worker what he will do how long ho he will work where he ha will work and what he will receive that is what labor is investing in america when it demands ma ads worker control of factories and farms the pressure of labor leaders the complacency of the american public the willingness of our representatives in congress to listen to and be influenced Influence ld by minority pressure groups may lead to industrial and national disaster our american system is threatened by a japanese pearl harbor blitz if we are not on the alert THE ORDINARY EVERYDAY EVERY DAY citizen discovers just how taut tant he is in time of war when the streamliner on which he pays a premium for the privilege of traveling is shunted onto a siding to give the fre freight ht train the right t way 0 0 0 ONE HUNDRED AND BILLION dollar sl we cannot visualize such a sum we can have no idea of what it 1 linins ra ons it is more than it has cost to operate our national government from the time it was organized down to the time we began preparations to enter the present war it represents near ly me cue half of the total value of af everything ery thing in america it is tho the amount of our expenditures an and authorized expenditures of our participation in this thia world war buy defense bonds |
