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Show wm (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) DIAMOND HEAD AS GOOD AS GIBRALTAR SEVERAL YEARS ago I sat with I Captain Wilson on the veranda of his home, looking over the placid waters of Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. Hono-lulu. The harbor is but a salt water wa-ter lake opening into the island of Oahu from the Pacific. It was originally origi-nally not much more than a marsh that had been dredged to a depth of some 60 feet in places. It is-a lake of many arms and bays, with sufficient suf-ficient anchorage room to accommodate accom-modate all of the American navy. On the far side, across from the homes of the naval officers, is the club house of the Honolulu Yacht club, and the landing place of the Pacific clipper planes. Near the center is an island on which is located lo-cated the naval air field. There was no war, or thought of war when I sat there with Captain Wilson. There was not even an appearance ap-pearance of any preparation for war. On the far shore a clipper plane, in from Manila, rode at anchor an-chor and was being loaded with mail for San Francisco. In that same arm several small sail boats were engaged in a race. In another an-other arm a battleship and cruiser were anchored, and near them were two or three destroyers. No one of these fighting ships offered any evidence evi-dence of being ready for sea. They did not mar in any way the peaceful peace-ful appearance of the scene. "This does not look like the impregnable im-pregnable fortress I had expected to see," I said to Captain Wilson. "It was not intended that all the defense preparations should be in sjght, but an enemy would find them here," was his simple reply. He did not tell me more, and should not have done so, but while in the islands. I learned a little of what these preparations were. No effort was made to cover up that entire division of American soldiers at . Schofield field, the army headquarters headquar-ters in Hawaii, and as fine a division divi-sion of fighting men as one could find in any man's army. Officers of the -army, quite properly, would not permit me a view inside of Diamond Head crater, a veritable mountain moun-tain fortress. I know it is literally lit-erally filled with great guns, each capable of throwing 1,900 pounds of steel for a distance of more than 20 miles. In the subterranean passages pas-sages of that fortress are stored sufficient suf-ficient munitions, food, water, medicines medi-cines and other materials to last for more than a year. Diamond Head is not a second, but a first Gibraltar. Along the shores of Oahu are other great guns, one of them within with-in a block of the Royal Hawaiian hotel at Waikiki beach, and another beside the Honolulu harbor. At Pearl Harbor there were vast quantities of storage facilities for oil, gasoline and naval munitions. There were dry docks and repair shops, everything to complete the most formidable naval base in the world. Into it the government, through the years since the annexation annexa-tion of the islands, has poured something some-thing near like a billion dollars. Now it is worth all of that, and more. It insures the safety from serious attack at-tack of our western mainland coast. I saw Pearl Harbor and the fortifications for-tifications in peace time. It is a different picture now. The big guns, the warships and the airplanes are doing the job they were put there to do. The place of Hawaii in our defense will advance its claim for statehood as the forty-ninth state. PARTNERSHIP SHOULD BE LABOR-EMPLOYER RELATION I WAS IN EUROPE in 1918, and for a short time in that section of Belgium retaken from the Germans just before the end of the war. On my return, a Belgium acquaintance, who operated a chain of laundries in Chicago, called on me to learn of what I had seen in his native country. During his visit the subject sub-ject of the new attitude of labor was discussed and I explained what English leaders had told me would be needed to appease labor in that country. "Labor is not entitled to consideration," consid-eration," said my visitor. "Labor has no brains. If I were to turn my business over to my employees tomorrow, in six months it would be wrecked. There would be nothing left." "Possibly that Is true." I replied, "but there is another thing that is true. Should you find yourself without with-out the help of labor tomorrow, and unable to get other employees, you would be out of business at once." He did not like my statement, and one of our troubles of today is that there are too many employers who fail to recognize the partnership between be-tween labor and capital PRICES SHOULD BE REGULATED AMERICA CAN and will pay the cost of defeating the Axis powers, whatever it may be, but America should not. and must not. have to pay an excessive price because of waste or greed. The government can take from capital any profits made on war production, but the price of ships, planes, tanks, guns, of all war equipment, is largely determined de-termined by the price of labor, rt'e need a regulation of prices, In-iluding In-iluding the price of labor. |