Show 0 TI S union unload released by western newspaper HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS AND A WORLD AT WAR WE ARE TRAVELING backward to the horse and buggy days of yesteryear ter year if we can agam again find the horses and buggies the war has marked at least a temporary suspension of the automobile era in 1941 the more than 29 million cars in the united states traveled a total distance of over billion miles an average of better than miles per car that gives some idea of what the automobile i has meant to america and to thel the american family on the farm it meant easy and quick transportation to town and to faraway far tar away towns it meant an opportunity to visit the movies even in towns 20 to 30 miles away it meant marketing in larger centers and pleasure trips covering long distances now when the present family bus is gone it cannot be replaced when its essential rubber has been burned out it cannot be the problem is to make both the car and the rubber last as long as possible to conserve both for the essential needs of the family it will carry them more times to the nearer movies and the nearer stores than to those farther away its rubber shoes will last longer at a slow speed than when burned up at top speed it means getting back to the more simple life of the horse and buggy days for those of the generation that knew the horse and buggy times going back to the simplicity of that period is rather alluring it means home produced instead of imported entertainment visits with friendly neighbors will take the place of joy riding it means neighborhood parties instead of movies the sunday school picnic the epworth league meeting the school entertainment will again come into their own conserve the old car and the farm truck and their rubber tires for the essential uses it will be hard to obtain the horses buggies and farm wagons of yesteryear as substitutes even though they might be satisfactory it may be a long time before the assembly lines are again turning out family transportation facilities as they have in the past quarter of a century 0 a a CLOSED SHOP AND FREE LABOR THE UNITED STATES army has bas a secret weapon it is an army of free americans extract from an ad for the army recruiting service that should be true but is is it entirely so today can we say an american is free when it is possible for a labor racketeer to force him to pay a price for the privilege of working when the labor racketeer demands that all american workers be forced to pay for the privilege of working that is what a closed shop in american industry would mean the american worker should be free to join a union if he wants to I 1 and many would but is he free when he is forced to do so if he wants to find a job through which to support himself and family the closed shop would be as un american as a state church with all forced to join and support it that the union can function effectively that it can adequately represent labor when operating on an american basis of freedom of action of the individual has been demonstrated through the years on such a basis the union has advanced the cause of labor when it demands as infringement of the freedom of the individual it seriously injures the cause it should seek to help the cry for a closed shop is the cry of the labor racketeer not of american workmen 0 0 0 FARMERS SON AND DRAFT BOARDS THOSE WHO MAKE the rules for the exemption boards do not figure the farmers son and the hired man as essential to national defense as are the officers and organizers of labor unions the farmers son and the hired man only provide food for our armed forces the union officers and labor racketeers provide the strikes that delay our construction of guns tanks planes ships and other war equipment the men of the armed services want to eat and they also want equipment with which to fight they do not take kindly to the rules issued to the exemption boards THIS WAR I 1 IN WHICH WHICH we are engaged is our war and we must real pe e that As our war it is not the war of some class or some group but of all of us and all of us must do our part and accept our part of the sacrifice 0 0 0 CURRENCY circulation AND INFLATION economists TELL US an overabundance of currency in circulation is one of the conditions that leads to inflation at the end of 1941 we had a total of of ciraula circulatory cur rency y that is only y an av average 0 f a little more than 82 for tor each of our people pie it does not seeni seem such a small 1 sum should be dangerous but the total is rr more than two billion higher than it was in december 1940 |