Show Released hy Western Newspaper OVER-MANNED WAR WHEREVER YOU FIND large war industries you hear of over-manned of too many people lo work de- v 1 spite the cry of manpower One ship-building contractor is said to have been asked how many i pic he had working in his one-half of those on the he is said to have If that shipyard is working for the government on a cost plus the contractor is directly robbing the American people in a large but with only small profit to as the government takes from him in taxes the greater portion of his ill-gotten The greatest evil he accomplishes is to reduce our meager margin of manpower and to pour the taxpayers' money into hands all too anxious to spend and so augment the danger of IX these are his sins will find him out in time and he will but it will be too late to help the Workers tell us they are forced by labor union officials lo slow down in their war production If that is those labor union officials are saboteurs of the worst If it is they arc deliberately holding up production of war equipment needed by our own and our Allied armed forces in order to collect more money for dues and membership fees war production will pay in but too late to save the lives of many Americans on the battle Why not find out if these many tales of sabotage on the part of both contractors and labor are Why not put qualified I investigators Into these war 1 tion plants to gather such evidence as may if and bring the saboteurs to If these things are true and where there is so much there must be some lire the time will come when the facts will be If Hie stink the revelation will create will pollute the air of all The reputations of those national leaders who permitted such conditions will be so smirched that they will go down in history as Benedict Waiting for a politically opportune time to make such an to divulge such facts as an investigation might would make of those responsible for delay as guilty as those responsible for the It is a job for congress to do with every effort directed to finding the facts so the if they may be stopped and the guilty or if those evils do not so the American people may know the stories are A good place to start is to ascertain on what basis contracts for war equipment are HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT A AFTER WORLD WAR the American congress would not approve of our participation in the League of considering it very much as a super government that might involve us in difficulties with which we had no What would be the attitude of the American people today on our participation in a super world-wide government that could dictate our foreign policy and our relationship to other Some Americans would say to such a but it is evident that public opinion has changed and is When that question was included on a ballot in voted for our participation and only against And that in the state of Henry Cabot the arch enemy of President Wilson's League of We are not as sure of our security now as we were 25 years The airplane has reduced both the Atlantic and Pacific to mill In many ways the next peace conference win present a new at least so far as America is in the matter of preserving world It may be cheaper to help do the preserving than to help do the fighting after the other fellow has started a What might have happened had America been a member of the League cf Nations can only be We might have made it my guess is we would have done We do know now that some of the people of Europe will not keep the peace unless they are forced to do and for our own protection it is probably our Job to lead in seeing that they do not start another THE WASHINGTON his wife and daughter must obey the as well as we common variety of And the law says government automobiles and government gasoline may not be used for pleasure riding or on personal That is an edict some of the officials in Washington have evidently not heard about YOU ARE NOW If you never did on just how many miles you get out of the bus on a gallon of |