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Show pi xwmkm Released by Western Newspaper Union. AMERICAN SYSTEM HAS BUILT JOBS FORD, CHRYSLER, KNUDSEN those three have been responsible, directly or indirectly, for the creation crea-tion of not less than 10 million, jobs which have provided maintenance of American homes on American standards. All three were mechanics. They started with nothing other than ability abil-ity and energy. Conditions in this land of opportunity offered them a chance to develop and made it possible pos-sible for them to break away from the mechanic's workbench a chance all of us have, if we have the ability and energy. The results of their ability and energy are felt not alone in every state, in practically every town and hamlet, and on every farm in America, Amer-ica, but they have spread to the far corners of the world in both peacetime peace-time and wartime. Today those results re-sults are aiding largely in providing provid-ing the sinews of war with which to defend our liberties and our opportunities. op-portunities. They have added many billions to our national wealth and billions each year to our national income, which each year is divided, directly or indirectly, in-directly, among all of us. Chrysler has already passed on. Ford and Knudsen are nearing man's allotted span of life. We cannot can-not hope to have them for many more years. When they pass, they do not take away with them any small part of what they have created. The jobs will be here, from which American homes on American standards will be maintained. They built for all of us. We are the beneficiaries of their ability and energy. The results these men and thousands thou-sands of others have achieved are the product of our American system, WOMEN WORKERS AND LABOR UNIONS THE GOVERNMENT has asked, and will continue to ask, women to man the war industry plants, and women have responded magnificently. magnificent-ly. Some of the airplane manufacturers manufac-turers are anticipating that as high as 70 per cent of the total of their plant employees will be women. ; Much as they are needed, most of these women, before they can do their patriotic bit, are forced to join labor unions. It does not seem fair that these unions should be permitted per-mitted to levy, and in fact, be assisted assist-ed in levying a tax on the patriotism of American women. Certainly levying levy-ing such a tribute on women cannot be considered as one of our vaunted "social advances." Our women are not entering these factories as a lifetime life-time job. They' are working so that American freedom may be saved, that their brothers, husbands, sons and fathers on the battle lines may have the tools of war with which to defeat the enemy. When the war is over, when the need no longer exists, they will return to their homes and families. In the meantime, the law licenses and authorizes the levying of tribute by a bunch of brigands who, in all too many cases, account to no one but themselves. And we could call that a "social advance." It is the kind of an "advance" that may lose for us the freedom for which our men on the battle lines are fighting. PRINTED WORD OUTDOES RADIO IT WAS an important individual making an address over the air on a subject of extreme interest to millions mil-lions of people. It was a subject of great interest to me and I listened as carefully as possible. That address ad-dress was a presentation of factual information, with figures to prove the facts. When the speaker had concluded, I tried to recall what he had said. I had a general impression and had probably been influenced, but could not recall a single one of his statements state-ments of fact, or a single figure on which those statements had been based. Aside from the general impression im-pression I had gained, that address was a complete failure as a presentation presen-tation of factual information. Radio is a wonderful instrument for our entertainment and amusement. amuse-ment. For each home in which there is a receiving set, it provides many pleasant hours, but as a means of distributing factual information, infor-mation, radio cannot compare with the printed word. Over the radio you get impressions, not facts. What we acquire through the eye sinks in, and we remember it. What we hear leaves only an impression. We do not get, or do not retain, the details. Prove it for yourself. After listening listen-ing to any radio statement in which figures are used, try to recall any one of those figures. RATIONING FOOD CAN BE REASONABLE WE MAY NOT HAVE as much food as we have had in the prodigal prodi-gal years of the past, but there is enough so none need go hungry il each is assured of his share of whal there is. We each can get our share by the rationing method. No loyal American should, or would, object to such s method applied to all alike, and undT;r the simplest rules possible. pos-sible. The process applied to suga-and suga-and cofce can also be applied tc all other staples. |
