Show u v o Released by Western Newspaper Union INFLATION A SERIOUS PROBLEM INFLATION IS MORE TITAN THAN A THREAT It is a very serious danger danger danger dan dan- ger which we face Should it come comein in the wild form experienced by Germany and to a large extent by France following World War I it would in all probability cause us to lose the war Germany recovered largely because because be be- cause to a considerable extent we fed the German people We loaned her per cent American dollars with which to buy American food products She never repaid those dollars We could not find a friendly people who would be able to feed teed teedus us under inflation conditions In an In effort to avoid the evils of or inflation we can certainly accept a limitation on profits a limitation on wages a ceiling on prices and pay heavy federal taxes for war purposes for the duration We can do these things much cheerfully for a limited time than be slaves to the Huns Runs for generations We are engaged in an out all war and that means either sacrifices sacrifices flees for tor the period of the war or slavery BUSINESS USINES AND AMERICAN PEOPLE WE THE RANK AND FILE of the American people are a part of American business We are the si silent silent silent si- si lent partners It makes no difference difference difference differ differ- ence as to what our job may be whet whether r that of a mechanic merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant clerk member of a profession profession profession sion a farmer or what have you the continuance of that job is dependent dependent de de- pendent directly or indirectly upon business Business conducts an intelligent effort to sell its products It buys newspaper and periodical space time on the air nir billboards and other forms of advertising in which to tell of the advantages to the purchaser purchaser pur pur- chaser of those things business pro pro- duces In its advertising it does not tell of the advantage to business business business busi busi- ness gained by the sale of its prod prod- It tells only of the value to the purchaser But business makes no effort to sell itself to the people its silent partners Business takes it for granted that we know all about this American institution in which we weare weare are lre so vitally interested that we are familiar with our relationship to that institution and that it can call upon us whenever it is in need of assistance Not realizing our relationship to business not realizing how vital the continuance of business is to our personal welfare we do not heed its call can To us the rank and file of the American people business is an enemy that will prey upon us if we wedo wedo wedo do not prey upon it It is our part to take from business all it is possible possible possible pos pos- sible to collect not realizing that in doing so we are taking from our our- selves What business needs is as competent competent competent compe compe- tent an advertising manager and staff stall of copywriters for itself as it has for its products It needs to sell its silent partners on its ts value to them The fact that business has not done this this has has not shown us our relationship as silent partners partners partners-is is largely responsible for our present attitude of soak business FARM FARl LABOR LABORIN IN CALIFORNIA THE GOVERNMENTS of the United United Unit Unit- ed Nations including our own are calling on American farmers for greater quantities of food The farmers farmers farm farm- ers are asked to produce more at a time when they like all an other industries industries indus indus- tries ar are short of help because of the thc call to the colors of hundreds of thousands of farm boys California proposed to solve or at least partially solve the farm h help lp problem during the fruit and grain harvest season by inducing school schoolboys schoolboys schoolboys boys of 15 years and over to forego their summer vacations and volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer for work on the farms and in inthe inthe inthe the canning conning plants High school schoolteachers schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers encouraged the idea and some thousands of boys volunteered Then the United States Employment Employment Employment Employ Employ- ment Service stepped into the picture picture picture pic pic- ture with a statement that the boys could work provided they paid for union membership cards and paid union dues for the period of employment employment em These California boys will be permitted permitted per per- to d do a patriotic job if they pay the unions for the privilege of doing it and agree to work not more than 40 hours a week That at a time when hundreds of thousands of farm boys are fighting for the liberties liberties liberties liber liber- ties of the American people for our cherished philosophy of government for our very life And this is America America Amer Amer- ica WEST I COAST AND JAP SAP ENEMY FIRST the de defense ense of England and the defeat of Hitler is the strategy of our military commanders and we should and must let them make the decision but people on the West coast feel the Japs are thinking the defeat of the United States Is the first arst object abject to b be accomplished To the people of the West Vest coast England Eng land and Hitler are a long way otTo oft but without straining themselves they can see the Japs peep peeping over the western horizon |