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Show i'liE AMERICAN WAY) SHEDDING LIGHT lllfeJ By Gcors' Peckmw2MWM As a nation we seem to be all of a dither, hopelessly mixed up about most everything. Should we reduce taxes? Should we adopt peace-time universal military mil-itary training? What attitude should we take toward Russia? How can we cope with labor leader dictatorship? How to abolish monopolies, either business busi-ness or union labor? Are we headed for disastrous inflation? Should we put theNgovernment more into business or stick to private, competitive enterprise that made us the prosperous nation na-tion that we arc? How can strikes be avoided that bring economic ec-onomic loss to all segments of our population? These are but a few of a long list of problems that perplex us Contributing greatly to the general gen-eral confusion is a lack of understanding under-standing on the part of all loo many of us as to the meaning of certain words words thai roll glibly off our tongues on ihe slightest provocation. ' The editor of the Loudspeaker, employee magazine, published by the Operadio Manufacturing Co., St. Charles, Illinois, ha.3 recognized this dangerous mal-trealment mal-trealment of words. He has made an excellent effort to shedT on a number of words tW Shl $ so grossly misused. In a r re" issue of his publication nt. ricd a "New Industrial DlrH ' ary," with the following Cti , amble thereto: 8 Pre- 7 Words , are. being misused i ' confuse important issues Ti i illegal to be untruthful' 13 food label; it should be ni2? to be untruthful in a JtuFal article or a speech, whether iffi by a politician, business man ? 4 labor leader. Here are true rt 7 ' mtions of some words that i been misused: . nave Communism Dictatorship V loss of personal freedom- hr-,P' ing all down to level of competent. 1Cd Cooperation American trait 4 of give-and-take; team-work- derstanding that the other fp'nif1 has rights, loo. r Iell , Customer The real loss i, what you and I make h low ; quality or high in price, custom cr stops buying, you. and I Sun . earning. il"J i Fascist Same as Communist Fascism Same as ComiSS ism. "Ul Job The opportunity to pro. ? duce and so earn an honest liv ing; something which must icXu;rtdled.0Ut?Sa 0 Price Sum of labor, piu. -materials, plus taxes. niUs tS profits which keeps business ing. If too high, buying siops i so obs stop. 'a f Production The goods or services a workman turns out In a day, out of which he must paid and out of which must ahc be paid the items whirh make his job possible. Profit Wages paid to th? savings of millions of people who make factories, machines jobs possible. Average one-seventh as $ much as wages to workers. Strike The argument very. one loses. Last resort of the wise first resort of the dangerous ' fXi (Synonyms: waste, irritant, tra'e edy, defeat.) J e.. There you have in simnle, un- ; derstandable, forthright Ian- ' guage, snappy definitions of some terms that today are be- ' ( ing so badly manhandled by so many. An understanding of the ' real meaning of the names attending at-tending our problems will go far toward helping us solve those problems. We mustfirst knq- just exactly what it is we have to solve. ' This employee majjazmi edi-'; .imm . lor is to be congratulated on giv- t ing the "low-down" to his read- . ers, thus, "shedding light" into f the fog of bewildered and crron- . eous utterance. fT |