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Show Wake Up, America It's Late The Nation needs to awaken to the full gravity of the peril that confronts us. It needs to nppreclate how badly bad-ly we have been defeated in three months of war. It needs to understand under-stand that it Is possible for the United Nations and the United States to lose this war and suffer the fate of France and that this possibility may become a probability probab-ility if the present tide does not change. It needs to realize that there Is a grave chance of the Japanese pushing throug'i India- and the Germans pushing through the Near East, to Join their armies and re sources in an almost unbeatable combination. We nee dto get away once and for all. from the comforting com-forting feeling that while we may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end. Only when fully aware of existing exist-ing perils will the United States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness aware-ness does not some too late, as it did In France. Production Director Donald Nelson Nel-son appeals for vastly increased output on a 24-hour, seven-day basis ba-sis 1G8 hours a week. Maximum production, in short. Can we get it? NOT ON THE PRESENT BASIS - NOT UNDER THE PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOL-OGY OF RECENT YEARS. Not until we quit thinking in terms of less work for more money. Not while there Is greater concern con-cern about overtime pay than overtime over-time production. Not while government bureaus created to meet a depression emergency emer-gency that is ended continue to grab for themselves money needed for armaments. Not while nn army of federal press agents clamors to promote and perpetuate activities that have no present great need or great value. ; Not while congressmen try to put over useless canals and river schemes and take up time of defense officials offi-cials clamoring for factories and contracts as if this was a great gravy train. Not while WPA. despite a short-aye short-aye of labor, seeks to carry on projects pro-jects which it doesn't have the men to perform or the need for performing perform-ing Not while CCC and NYA stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be i.i the armed forces or the war plants. Not while strikers hamper production, pro-duction, despite a solemn promise that they would stop. Not while the Lfe-and-death struggle for uninterrupted production produc-tion is used as a weaion to put over the closed shop. Not while double time Ls demanded demand-ed for Sunday work which is only part of a 40-hour week. Not while a man can't be employed em-ployed on an Army project or in a war plant until he pays $20 to $50 or more to a labor racketeer. Not while Fifth-Columnists are pampered and enemy al'ens move freely in defense areas. Not while the timorous are afraid of reprisals to speak for needful corrections. Not while the grim Job of preparing pre-paring our homes against air raids Is gummed up with a lot of high faulting, boondoggling, social service ser-vice activities. Not while pressure blocks clamor for bigger benefits, bounties an.1 pensions. We will not get maximum production pro-duction until we really our awful peril, and, get over Uie gimmies of recent years. Olmmle shorter hours, gimme higher wages, glmmie bigger profits, pro-fits, glmmle more overtime, glmmie less work, glmmie more pensions, gimmle greater crop benefits, glmmie glm-mie more appropriations, more patronage, pa-tronage, gimmle plants for my congressional con-gressional district, gimmie fees and dues, gimmle ham and eggs, gimmie share-the-wealth, glmmie $30 every Thursday France has no gimmies TODAY I It had. Will the United States wake up TOO Late? El Paso Herald-Post, March 5. |