LOOKING
, AKIM
GEORGE S BENSON
*nt(deHtzH*iv(iHf College
Searcy, Arkansas
MORAL COURAGE
Only three dangers seem big
enough to threaten America’s di
rect course to post-war prosper
ity. They are (1> scarcity of cap
ital, <2) loss of foreign markets,
and government bungling in
matters of business. Two prev
ious chapters of “Looking
Ahead” discussed the first two
r ^bstacles, Either of them could
wreck America’s hope of world
leadership; both can be avoided.
The courage of our people to
brave the first two hazards de
pends on knowing what govern
ment means to do about the
third. By investing the cost of six
months of war, industry can
create the 7 to 10 million nev
jobs needed. Competent Ameri
can workers can make these jobs
pay good wages and returns on
the investment. Industry and la
bor can succeed together with
favorable government regula
tions.
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PAYS TO BE READY
Stalling and delaying at the
war’s end may. In three ways,
stop all progress of labor and in
dustry back toward prosperity.
Indeed one obstruction can keep
recovery from even starting,
might wreck Private Enterprise
before it starts. Taxation \s the
deadly tool. No new’ law's are
necessary. Many a small indus
trial plant will never turn a
wheel after the emergency until
present tax laws are changed.
A factory in Texas work1- 150
men. I know the owner. His tax
es ran $1,000 a day las year, about
the same as his pay-roll. He man
ages today because the govern
ment takes his complete output
no risks to run, no selling to do.
After the war it will be differ
ent. Uncertain demands, sure
soiling costs, competition to meet
Without tax relief he does not see
how he can afford to take such
risks.
TIME HAS VALUE
The case is typical. Mo,s' man
ufacturers believe tax revisions
will come, but they fear delay |
If work starts on a new tax bili ,
after V-Dav, it will be a year m
the making and a serious business
depression can get underway m
that time. If employers might
know today how peace-time tax- ;
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timate prices and shift into post
war production and employment
without a shut-down.
Something rise business men
can’t wait for too long: News
about government competiion.
The U. S. owns ou*right 25 per
cent of the nation’s manufactur
ing plants and equipment Will
these be sold ino private ovmer
sh:p, or what? If supported by
taxes, such plants could make
anything from foot-valves to
lightning rods and leave the em
ployees of bankrupt competitors
weeping in the streets.
SEDITION IS UNLAWFUL
Sabotage is government’s third
fear to remove. Alien agitator^
unmuzzled in this country can bf
expected to start promoting revo
lution as soon as hostilities have
ceased. Many new-made Ameri
cans still hold slave-land notions
and believe anything that in
jures their employer helps them.
Arson, violence and vandalism
should be restrained in years
when life and liberty depend on
eff'eieney.
The world’s »>nly free peonlo
must stay free. Independence
must be retained by the world’s
only nat'on not reduced to beg
gary. No sane baseball rd
would go to bat with two sTri’res
on him, and. by the same token
American’s rational business mer
deserve an open statement o'
government policy on t’-roe
things: <]> taxation, '2* sedition
and '3> government compete on.
If government will clear the
track industry will come through.
BRITONS ARE SAVING
LONDON — (AP>— Small
savings by the people of Britain
since the war have passed tin
3,000,000,000-lb.. mark. Large
savings are approaching 5,000,
000,000 pounds.
PLANES SPEEDIER
WITH SLICK PAINT
AKRON —<AP>— Engineers rr
the Goodyear Aircraft Corpora
tion are dressing the speedy Cor
said fighters, flown by Navy and
Marine p lots, in a glossy coat of
paint and say that the Corsair,
rated at better han 400 miles an
hour, steps up its speed by at
least five knots with the new
paint job. he glossy paint is said
| to create less surface resistance
; than a dull finish,
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BIRD NOTE
BATON ROUGE —rAP>~~ Irm
Darling Bird is the name of a j
stenographer in the chemica’ i
technical service of the Standard j
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Oil Co., here. "I have five bro
thers and sisters,” she says, “but
I got the ‘bird' when they hand
ed out the names.”
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WILCOX PROMOTED
IN SEATTLE
Word has been received by Jack
Fa rv/eather, Alaska Steamship
Company agent here, that M. J.
Wilcox, former agent in Nome in
1940-41, has been promoted to ma
rine superintendent for the com
pany at Seattle, replacing E. M.
Murphy. Mr. Wilcox as been as
sistant superintendent for the past
two years.
Rain falls on Brest about 200
clays of the year.
NOME MOTOR COMPANY
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HARD DRIVING
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