Show y W 1 T r al I 1 A relented released by western newspaper union I 1 mona HOUSE AND DAYS A AND ND A WORLD AT WAR WE ARE TRAVELING backward 0 o the horse and buggy days of 0 yesteryear ter year if wo we can again find and tho the horses and buggies tho the war has marked at least a temporary sus pension of at the automobile era cm in 1011 1911 the moro more than 29 20 million cars in the united states traveled atonal a total distance of over billion miles nn an average ot of better ahn than n miles per car that gives some iden idea of what tho the automobile lins has meant to america and to tho the american family on tho the farm it meant easy and quick transportation to town and to faraway far tar away towns it meant nn an opportunity to visit tho the movies even in towns 20 to 30 miles away it meant marketing in larger centers and pleasure plo asuro trips covering long I 1 distances now when tho present family faintly bus I 1 Is gone it cannot bo be replaced when i its essential rubber has been burned out it cannot be tho the problem Is to make anko both tho the car an and d tho the rubber lost last as long as possible to conserve both tor for the essential needs of the family it will carry them more times to the nearer movies and tho the nearer stores than to those choso far thor away its rubber shoos shoes will last longer at a slow flow speed than when burned up nt at top speed it means getting back to the more simple life of the horse and buggy days for those of tho the generation that knew tho th 0 horse and buggy times going back to the simplicity of that period Is rather alluring it means home produced instead of imported entertainment visits with friendly neighbors will take tho the place of loy joy riding it means neighborhood par ties instead of movies the tha sunday school picnic tho the epworth league meeting the school entertainment will again come into their own conserve the old car and the farm truck an and d their rubber tires for or the tha essential uses it will be ba hard to obtain the horses horles buggies and farm wagons of yesteryear as substitutes even though they might bo be satisfactory it may bo be a long time before the assembly lines are again turning out family transportation facilities as they have in the past quarter of a century CLOSED SHOP AND LABOR THE UNITED STATES army has a secret weapon it is nn an army ot of free americans Amerl cans extract from an ad tor for tho the army recruiting service that should be true but Is it en so today con can we say an american isaree Is free when it is possible for a labor racketeer to force him to pay a price tor for the privilege ot of working when the labor racketeer demands that all american workers be forced to 6 pay for the privilege of working 7 that Is what a closed shop in american industry would mean the american worker should be free frea to join a union it if he wants to and many would but Is he free when he Is forced to do so if he ha wants to find and a job through which to support himself amse an and family am tho closed shop would bo be as uh n american as a state church with all forced to loin join and support it that the union can function effectively that it can adequately represent labor when operating on an all american basis of freedom of action of the individual has been demonstrated through the years on such a basis the union has advanced the cause of labor when it demands an infringement of the freedom of the individual it seriously injures the c cause ause it should seek to help the cry tor for a closed shop Is the cry of the labor racketeer not of american workmen 1 FARMERS SON AND DRAFT BOARDS THOSE WHO MAKE the rules tor for the exemption boards do not figure the farmers son and the hired man as essential to national de tense as are the officers and organizers of labor unions the farmers non lion and the hired man only pro vide food for our armed forces the union officers and labor racket racketeers cers provide the strikes that delay our construction of guns tanks planes ships and other war equipment the men of the armed services want to eat and they also want equip ment with which to fight they do not take kindly to the rules issued to the exemption boards THIS WAR IN WHICH we are en Is our war and wo we must real ize that As our war it Is not the war of some class or some group but of all ot of Us and all of esmust us must do our part and accept our part of the sacrifice cun CURRENCY nENcy circulation andina AND INFLATION LATION economists TELL US an over abundance of currency in circulation Is one of the conditions that leads to inflation at the end of 1041 wo we had a total of of cur rency that is only an average of blittle a little more than 82 for each of our people it does not seem such a small sum should be dangerous but the total is more than two billion higher than it was in december washington tho the charles chariot green sales company ot of now new york has declined to accept reimbursement for merchandise in the marine post exchange at guam which was lost when the tha island was captured by the japanese tho the navy said eald wo we ore are not in ili the least bit ln in te rested sted in ill placing a claim for tho the amount due us its from tho the post exchange at guam island charles green wrote tho the marine corps cor pg under tho the circumstances may we suggest that tho the amount duo us be used to buy a good sized shell to blow the agg aggressor ressor nation back to hell |