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Show iteltjased by Western Newspaper Union, INFLATION . . . A SERIOUS PROBLEM INFLATION IS MORE THAN A THREAT. It is a very serious danger dan-ger which we face. Should it come in the wild form experienced by Germany, and to a large extent by France, following World War I, it would, in all probability, cause us to lose the war. Germany recovered largely because be-cause to a considerable extent we fed the German people. We loaned her 100 per cent American dollars with which to buy American food products. She never repaid those dollars. We could not find a friendly people who would be able to feed us under inflation conditions. In an effort to avoid the evils of inflation, we can certainly accept a limitation on profits, a limitation on wages, a ceiling on prices, and pay heavy federal taxes for war purposes for the duration. We can do these things much more cheerfully for a limited time than be slaves to the Huns for generations. We are engaged in an "all-out" war, and that means either sacrifices sacri-fices for the period of the war, or slavery. 'BUSINESS' AND AMERICAN PEOPLE WE, THE RANK AND FILE of the American people, are a part of American business. We are the silent si-lent partners. It makes no difference differ-ence as to what our job may be, whether that of a mechanic, merchant, mer-chant, clerk, member of a profession, profes-sion, a farmer, or what have you, the continuance of that job is dependent, de-pendent, directly or indirectly, upon business. Business conducts an intelligent effort to sell its products. It buys newspaper and periodical space, time on the air, billboards and other forms of advertising, in which to tell of the advantages to the purchaser pur-chaser of those things business produces. pro-duces. In its advertising it does not tell of the advantage to business busi-ness gained by the sale of its products. prod-ucts. It tells only of the value to the purchaser. But business makes no effort to sell itsell to the people, its silent partners. Business takes it for granted that we know all about this American institution in which we are so vitally interested; that we are fairinr with our relationship to j JKtiy that it can call I fcK y v fcr) "heed of , Not realizing our relationship to business; not realizing how vital the continuance of business is to our personal welfare, we do not heed its call. To us, the rank and file of the American people, business is an enemy that will prey upon us if we do not prey upon it. It is our part to take from business all it is possible pos-sible to collect, not realizing that in doing so we are taking from ourselves. our-selves. What business needs is as competent compe-tent an advertising manager and staff of copywriters for itself as it has for its products. It needs to sell its silent partners on its value to them. The fact that business has not done this has not shown us our relationship as silent partners is largely responsible for our present attitude of "soak business." FARM LABOR IN CALIFORNIA THE GOVERNMENTS of the United Unit-ed Nations, including our own, are calling on American farmers for greater quantities of food. The farmers farm-ers are asked to produce more at a time when they, like all other industries, indus-tries, are short of help because of the call to the colors of hundreds of thousands of farm boys. California proposed to solve, or at least partially solve, the farm help problem during the fruit and grain harvest season by inducing school boys of 15 years and over to forego their summer vacations and volunteer volun-teer for work on the farms and in the canning plants. High school teachers encouraged the idea, and some thousands of boys volunteered. Then the United States Employment Employ-ment Service stepped into the picture pic-ture with a statement that the boys could work, provided they paid for union membership cards and paid union dues for the period of employment em-ployment These California boys will be permitted per-mitted to do a patriotic job if they pay the unions for the privilege of doing it and agree to work not more than 40 hours a week. That at a time when hundreds of thousands of farm boys are fighting for the liberties liber-ties of the American people, for our cherished philosophy of government for our very life. And this is America! WEST COAST AND JAP ENEMY FIRST the defense of England and the defeat of Hitler is the strategy of our military commanders, and we should and must let them make the decision, but people on the West coast feel the Japs are thinking the defeat of the United States is the first object to be accomplished. To the people of the West coast, England Eng-land and Hitler are a long way off, but without straining themselves they can see the Japs peeping over the western horizon. |