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Show Mm (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! A REAL VETERAN LOOKS WESTWARD AN OLD GENTLEMAN large of frame, with bristling eyebrows, heavy, flowing mustache, tousled hair and a kindly smile and cheering cheer-ing word for all he meets has been spending the winter at San Diego, looking westward to those islands and countries to which American soldiers, sailors and marines are moving against our enemies. Maj. George Fitzgerald Lee is a veteran of that heroic old army that fought the Indians through the Da-kotas, Da-kotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Nebras-ka, Kansas and the Southwest, and made those states safe for the pio-leers pio-leers who built them into great commonwealths. He and his comrades com-rades of that army of the late seventies sev-enties and early eighties made possible pos-sible the peaceful cultivation of the farms of those states and the building build-ing of towns and cities. It was a little army that pushed our frontier through to the western ocean. Georgi Lee knew the hardships of long, weary marches as an infantry soldier over the then almost trailless West. The army in which he served did not travel on rubber tires, but on the leather shod feet of each individual in-dividual soldier. George Lee fought with General Shatter in Cuba. He went with i Funston to the Philippines. He was in the expedition that broke the Boxer Box-er revolution in China. He closed his military career in the World war of 1917-18. Today he looks westward toward the Philippines and his memories travel with the American forces that go to meet a new foe on fields he 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 envy him his memories. LABOR 'GENERALS' AND INDUSTRY CONTROL - AN EFFECTIVE ARMY cannot be composed entirely of generals. An effective industrial organization cannot be composed entirely of superintendents su-perintendents or general managers. In any organization, whether it be an army, a factory or a farm, there must be a boss, someone whose word represents authority. Labor organizations today are demanding de-manding labor control of industry. Labor leaders would have the workers work-ers control the factories. That as a final analysis is the so-called Reuther plan for the automobile industry. in-dustry. , Ford is employing something more than 100,000 men. Under the Reuther plan, they would all be generals. gen-erals. They would all be in a position posi-tion to give orders and there would be none to follow orders. Each would quite rightfully expect to sit at the general manager's desk. The general manager would be" selected by the workers and would be chosen as a matter of popularity, rather than as a matter of ability. It would be exceptional to find the worker who felt his place was on the assembly as-sembly line. The efficiency of the assembly line would disappear. Mass production, which has made America the greatest great-est producing nation in the world, would be only a thing to think about. Production would drop to practically practical-ly a vanishing point. There would not be a car for every family. With the passing of the automobile industry indus-try 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 coun-tries the government is boss. It is government that tells each worker what he will do, how long he will work, where he will work, and what he will receive. That is what labor is investing in America when it demands de-mands worker-control of factories and farms. The pressure of labor leaders, the complacency of the American public, pub-lic, the willingness of our representatives represen-tatives in congress to listen to and be influenced 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, EVERY-DAY citizen discovers just how unimportant unimpor-tant he is in time of war when the "streamliner," on which he pays a premium for the privilege of traveling, trav-eling, is shunted onto a siding to give the freight train the right " way. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR FORTY-FOUR BILLION dollars! We can-not can-not visualize such a sum. We can have no idea of what it means. 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 nearly near-ly one-half of the total value of everything ev-erything in America. It is the amount of our expenditures and authorized expenditures of our participation par-ticipation in this World war. Buy Defense Bonds i |