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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1944.
MILITARY MEN
OF LETTERS
Some day when the war
is over it should be the
fascinating task of some
scholar to examine the
communiques, speeches
and general pronounce
ments of our military
leaders for the light which
these statements can
throw on the men, their
characters and their abil
ities.
Until that time is at
hand, it is enough to make
the broad observation that
our top generals and ad
mirals express themselves
remarkably well and with
great variety. Their vo
cabulary, when they ad
dress themselves to civ
ilian audiences, is free*
from military aridity. And
they employ it with a di
rectness, clarity, and very
often imagination that
many professional writers
might and probably do
envy.
General MacArthur’s
utterances have the Or
iental splendor and roll
; ing periods of the Old Tes
tament — due logically
enough, according to re
ports, to his assiduous Bi
ble reading. Admirals King
and Nimitz and General
Marshal can condense im
portant news into a model
of straightforward report
ing or (and especially in
Marshalls case) can infuse
this almost blunt economy
of expression with boiling
hot sincerity in public
speeches.
Admiral Halsey contrib
uted a satirical and grace
fully contemptuous com
ment on the Japs’ inflated
victory claims when he;
informed Admiral Nimitz
that he had salvaged his
entire Jap-destroyed fleet
and was withdrawing in
the direction of the enemy.
But best of all, perhaps,
is General Eisenhower’s j
description of war which
he gave to a vsiting con
gressman in France.,
“War,” said the gener
al, “is like pushing a
heavily loaded wagon up
a steep hill in a fog and
never knowing whdn you]
are going to reach the top.
So you have to .push like
hell all the time.”
In all military literature
it would be hard to find a
more illuminating simile.
Needless to say the gener
al was not speakng of his
strategy or his armies’
tactics, neither of which
is the least bit foggy, but
of the unremitting effort
needed right up to the
hour and minute of the
enemy’s final defeat.
In these memorable sen
tences General Eisenhow
er has impressed us all
I with the dangers of com
placency, and has done it
to our way of thinking,
I far better than a hundred
: speeches on the subject.
Those sentences are
something to cut out and
paste up in home, office or
j factory. Or ‘better, they
are worth learning and
| thinking about. They
ought to keep us pushing.
—(Anahorage Times).
FULL EMPLOYMENT
Full employment is a
phrase which post-war
planners have been using
to excess. The phrase does
appear to mean that every.s
one would have a job. But
this term is a rather am
biguous one. For example,
in a recent Brookings
study concerned with na-'
tional income, the author
made the assumption that
there would be “reason
able full employment” in
1947. He then went on to
point out that this would
mean that “something like
three missions would nor
mally not be working.”
Included in this large
group would be “some un
employables, those out be
'cause of protracted illness,
the seasonally unemploy
ed, and those in the pro
cess of shifting from one
job to another.” It seems
certain that there would
be a “labor float” due to
such factors as those out
lined above, even at times
of maximum employment.
A number of other
questions may be raised in
connection with the mean
ing of this term. Is full
employment based upon a
40-hour week Or, if there
were substantial unem
ployment at that number
of hours, would an at-1
tempt be made to secure
“full employment” by re
ducing the working week,
to 35 hours or even less?
5 Does full employment
mean a worker at any
job? Or does it mean that
workers are located in
those jobs where they can
make their maximum con
tribution to production—
and, how can this be de
termined? Depending upon
which of these two as
sumptions is made, the ag
gregate volume of produc
tion would be widely dif
ferent and so would the
real incomes of our peo- j
pie. The fact that “full
employment” is meaning
less as an indication of
economic welfare is also
evident from that fact
that even a primitive
economy has full employ
ment. — (New York
| Times).
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