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Show T ; '; THIS BUSINESS R l ipjl, SUSAN THAYER i HcUT We're in This Thing Together has been expanded tremendously the last few months in order to produce the flood of war materials we need now. It takes my breath away when I think what theyH be able to do with all that capacity capa-city when they begin on commodity commod-ity production again! They'll be able to make encugh things for all of us and a 1, . of the rest of the world besides. The war came right home and sat on my doorstep the other day. I had invited company for dinner and expected to clean the whole house in the morning. But at 9 o'clock the vacuu mcleaner broke down. I phoned all over town but couldn't get any one to fix it. So I went to work with a broom, as women used to before vacuum cleaners had been invented. Then about noon Bessie Brown, who'd promised to come and help me get the dinner, telephoned to say she'd just taken a job in a war plant, and a little later the bakery sent word they wouldnt have any of the cakes I counted on because of the sugar shortage. I wanted to jump in the car and drive down by the lake for a few minutes to cool off and recover my piose. But our tires are too old to permit even a mile of unnecessary unneces-sary driving. So I walked over to Aunt Matilda's to tell her my troubles. "I know, I know," she said comfortingly, com-fortingly, "things like that can be terribly annoying; but less so now than usual." "Less so?" I exclaimed. "Yes, because they're due to the war they're going to happen to everybody before it's over. We're aU in this thing together," she reminded re-minded me, "and nobody is going to be completely comfortable or have all of everything she wants while it lasts because the manufacturers, manu-facturers, who produced all our conveniences and luxuries have another job to do these days." "I see what you mean, and of course I can use a brom with a lot better grace because Jane is having to ride a bicycle instead of going in their car which is already al-ready grounded for the duration, and Helen is going to hare to use stoves in place of that oil furnace this winter." "That's right. You aren't glad of their hardships but it makes your own a lot easier to take because they're having troubles too. But just as all 130 million of us are going to have to put up with inconveniences in-conveniences for the duration, we are all going to make up for it later on." "You mean when the war is over?" "Yes. Can you Imagine what these same manufacturers will do for us then? Their plant capacity |