Show y WR W R I 1 G HT H I 1 A PATTERSON PATTERSO N released by western newspaper union nion A TYPICAL ICAL MARINE WHO WANTED A FIGHT THE TWO THINGS from which w aich col kink beecher united states marines derived greatest pleasure was to fish and to fight he could spend long days on a favorite wisconsin lake and while he preferred a black bass he did not despise the lowly perch but even better than fishing to kink was a good scrap fighting with him Is an avocation as well as a vocation he Is a from the ranks rank officer and has fought with the marines in france in nicaragua china haiti and other places the last time I 1 saw raw him was at quantico the marine barracks near washington where he was unhappy because there was no prospect of a fight I 1 last heard from him at shanghai he left there for manila some two weeks before pearl harbor I 1 tru bruot at he still lives even though he may be a prisoner of the japs but to be out of 0 the fight would be the greatest hardship that could befall him to me col kink beecher typifies the united states marine corps government BONDS IN WAR TIME WE HAVE IN AMERICA today considerably ider ably more than twice as coash muc much currency in circulation as we had during world war I 1 and we then had some slight inflation but not enough to be ruinous during world war I 1 the public purchased the greater portion of the liberty bonds issued by the government as a result of special sales drives with a house to house canvass within the past ten years most ot of the government bonds issued have been sold to the banks with a small er percentage to the insurance companies and the public when the banks buy they in turn use them th rn as a basis for additional bank note currency and that accounts for our ever increasing money in circulation every increase in the amount of our circulating currency increases the danger ot of inflation the banks cannot take up the government issues without turning them into increased bank note currence curr currency enci that is one of 0 the reasons for the effort to sell the bonds to the public instead of to the banks the other reason is to take out of the hands ot of the public money people would uther otherwise wise use in the purchase of commodities we cannot produce a sufficient amount 0 of I 1 consumer commodities to meet such a demand when the public has money to buy more commodities than can be produced it pushes the prices up to inflationary levels the only other remedy is teed fixed prices and fixed prices will leave money in the hands of the people I 1 AMERICAN DE DEMOCRACY AND THE COMING PEACE MRS ROOSEVELT in the american magazine tells us we are fighting tor for the privilege ol of revolutionizing the world on the lines of democracy mo cracy rather than permitting hitler to revolutionize it ozi on the lines of 0 german totalitarianism she says the war is but the first step in that revolution she does not say what the final step Is to be governor stassen of minnesota in a recent interview proposes several plans tor for the purpose he says ol of making the roosevelt churchill atlantic program a reality at the peace conference both give america something to think about and we should be a unit as to what we want by the time that peace conference meets meetha a few months or a few years from now to help us in the thinking it w would id acou be well if sumner blossom editor tor of the american magazine would find someone to interpret the type of world mrs roosevelt is expecting the revolution to produce IN 1941 THERE WERE on the roads ot of america of 0 what the government considers non arity cars that is cars the government would not permit being replaced during the war government experts figure that should the war last until 1945 1045 three more years the number of non priority cars then in operation would be down to what a dead place america would be under such conditions let us hope the huns the japs and the are licked long before we reach such a point N IS ONE WAY AY ol of insuring treads retreads re tor for your automobile tires get a job as an official of a labor union they are considered essential to the war effort but farmers salesmen m merchants er chants and others of the common people including workers may walk CLASS consciousness OUT OF THE WAR we will achieve a freedom tor for which we are not fighting the huns or th the a japs out of the war we will achieve a freedom from that growing class consciousness there were those with selfish purposes encouraging a recognition of 0 class and class distinctions any et ef tort fort along such lines is subversive to our ideals it has been only in recent years that we have recognized even in a small way any class distinctions |