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EDITORIAL
MODERN CHRISTMAS CAROL
Christoias is past, but 1d Christma
almost as beautiful and
which millions of Americans t
In Dickens’ story-—still 1
how sickness and health, poverty
by Pate. Maybe you never thought « very possibly
Tim wore his crutches as u Although there's
difference on the date of the first recorded epidemic of the disease
most commonly accepted “first epidemic” occurred in England in 1835
That was exactly nine vears before Dickens’ great story was first pub-
Tim, the son of poor against the
erippler. His family had no m ro and scientific knowledge
had not begun their fight against th iren’s di
fast—-often reaching its pinnacle in 72 hours
But today's Christmas Carol stor
privileged are not left to the mercy
American people have taken up the fight
Ten years ago, through public
velt's birthday, America’s men, women
dimes and dollars into the battle. And ti
Half of the funds remain
for local work; the other haif
fantile Paralysis not only to alleviate
of finding the cause and the cu
And so again this year, from January 15t
day on Saturday, January 30.h, the Ame 1 public again will be joining
in this new and modern Christmas Carol-—where the 10
on the march makes music from America
there's 1
touching
}
cheer
te 1es
4
parert had no chance dread
Va aT
ease which strikes
ihe
in
frre
uring
began
ing it ever since
Po
in the i y are collected
he National Poundation for In-
uffering but also for the big task
t plague,
h to the President's birth
re
of the last
jingle
the heart of
TOTALITARIANISM—OR CAPITALISM
President Eric Johnston of U. 8. Chamber of Commerce
America stands at the crossroad In one direction lies totalitarianism;
in the other direction, an ve, enlightened capitalism, planning on
a nation-wide scale for constructive postwar enterprise that will employ
all Americans except those needed for necessary government
funétions. Writing in the Pebruary issue of Reader's Digest, John
says private business can fill that ortler if it plans { and that leaders
of organized labor hope private capital, rather than government, take
on the job.
Johnston says a C. 1. O. leader in Washington remarked the other
day that he would rather bargain with any private employer than with
any bureaucrat, becsuse “the bureaucrat has jails.” Johnston also
quotes in the Digest, a recent statement of President William Green of
the American Federation of Labor, who said: “If this country ever gets
a system of governmental regimentation, labor will suffer most. Labor
therefore, is deeply interested in the preservation of private business; and
labor should everlastingly maintain that the owners and managers of
business are entitled to a fair and just return on their investments.”
Johnston says their is no reason to fear, therefore, that labor wil
try to destroy business in favor of government. He declares that labor
holds with the late Justice Brandeis that business must be run under
such conditions that the owner is willing to risk his capital. The Cham-
ber head says the thing to fear is that people in general—including
millions who are wageworkers and millions who are not-—-may forget
Jas what it is that makes business go
Por this, Johnston says, businessmen largely have themselves
blame. Intimidated by tirades against “bloated capitalists” and “swollen
profits,” they fear the word capitalism is unpopular-—and take refuge
in such phrases as the “Free Enterprise System” and the “American
Way of Life.” Such language, he says, obscures the main issue, because
youf can't take a “whiff of free enterprise” or a “stretch: of the way of
life” and start a factory with it
“To start a factory,” Johnston declares, “and to start the jobs inside
that factory, you have to have savings, You have to have money. You
have to have capital. It takes thousands of dollars of capital to equip
a really modern factory with the machinery for one job for one wage-
worker. Preedom and Americanism are the atmosphere. But capital is
the seed in the sofl. Unless we produce that seed and unless we plant
it, there will be no new crops of private jobs for the American people
when this war is over”
* Johnston warns, however, that people are going to have jobs. They'll
get them from the government, or. a new and bigger WPA, unless private
capital employs them. And how will private capital employ them?
Johnston cites the need for modern housing to replace the “vast, wretched
unwholesome, substandard residential areas in which millions of Ameri-
can citizens still live’ He says that to change all this squalor and ugli-
ness into decency and sightliness is a job meaning billions of dollars of
business, It cannot be done small. It has to be done big. Johnston says
private business can make organizations which will include representa-
tives of all elements of housing production, and produce housing at a
private co-operative consolidated cost that will baffle all the public
platiners in the whole of Washington. He adds: “Some of them would
like to do all this building. We will do it first—and better. We will stop
rafling at the government. We will start outthinking it and outdoing
it and outstripping it.”
Johnston says that to modernize everything in this country would
mean so many billions of dollars that business could not get through
earning them and spending them in 20 years. Labor's contribution, he
says, should be to drop all "make work” devices and all devices for get-
ting paid for work not necessary or work not done, and to continue the
wartime policy of many unions in helping managemnet improve processes
and reduce costs. Ihe Chamber head says labor must also concede, with
government, that business must be allowed to keep enough savings,
enough new capital, to be able to go ahead into new investments, new
adventures, new services—because free private business is like a motor-
cycle, It must move. If it stops, for lack of gasoline, it topples, leaving
only totalitarian govermentalism
Johnston says hardly anybody in America deliberately wants that.
But that what threatens us is unintentional totalitarianism, into which
we cdn slip absentmindedly unless we use our heads to plan and organize
with the spirit of the ploneers.
the Gy
aggressi
absolutely
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to
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professor of home economics, who fa!
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Liberty Ships
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records that from the action of
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courage determination for
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COLLEGE PLANS COURSES
ON CARE OF CHILDREN
been
State
to care
women defense
Two new Bort covrses
Pennsylvania
personne
the children of
workers
One of corse,
March 11 31. will deal with the
guidance and care of children. The
other, on the administration of child
care centers, will run from April 1
to 21
Plans for the
State have
the Stale Adv
the Care of Children in
Marion 8. McDowell,
have
planned
College to
for
the to run from
to
training courses at
been approved by
Committee on
Wartime
aasociate
isory
nursery school at
member of this
charge of the
the College, |
feommittee
|
Who can remember when every
backyard had a flock of poultry?
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WHEN THE FIRST WORLD W,
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AT Tut ARMORED FORCE Scnoot.
Query & Answer Column
AT ' { 4
L'Enfa
Hagonal of Le triangle be
ite House, to be named Pera
i! Government had
} owners of hot
10
$1: Ts
we in
which &
1 one putt guineas
y worth $500,
Ar, won the race and ia
B. M.-<Alexander K
1k on the Naz in
G.~Wha
in the East
Cheaper Automobile Promised
An
id cheaper than present cars, cap- War, the
veling 50 miler an a gal. Can
is a post-war prospect aat the
Henry J. Raiser, West It's
shipbuilder If establisl —-
tH do not produce the
will, Kaiser said, He alo
the production of a vast
number of civilian planes and home
truction on a large scale
we often read in articies on
Are ROME
automobile 50 per cent lighter
re
number
enemy has
ni the exact
om ava rive!
given amazing
weed - —
an intelligent individu
in
Frankly
is interested
irers B
ACLS (
they
getting the
even when
own
forecast all questions
counter to his. or her
tions
i
YOUTHS CF 17 MAY SIGN UP FOR
Con or
run
predic
We are amazed at the figures that
the
bright boys who
on A
3
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NAVY; BEGIN TRAINING LATER
Seventeen-year-old boys who want | High school seniors who apply must
to sign up for naval aviation train- finish their high school course,
ing may do so immediately instead board explained, since
of waiting until they are 18, it was from an accredited high
announced today required before a youth
Those who enlist will not begin flight training
training until they are i8, however. The announcement
according to the announcement some bovs who meet
school
can
added
qualification:
from the Naval Aviation Cadet Se-|t, he prescribed later may be admit-
Widener (ted to the Navy's new college pro-
building, Philadelphia, Eighteen for- gram for a year, retaining their ap-
lection Board. 12th floor,
that
the
a diploma
begin
merly was the minimum age for en- | prentice seaman rating, and then
listment. {sent to a naval
Under the new program, qualified school.
youths who have been graduated]
flight
the special designation for naval ing, Philadelphia,
aviation cadets. lor by mail
After they pass their 18th birth-|
day, they will be given an opportun- |
ity to (rain as aviation cadets, Com!
missions as Ensigns in the Naval Re-
‘serve or Becond Lieutenants in the
Marine Corps will be issged to those |
who compiete their flight training. |
| College shidents in the 17-year-old | LéEb
|class may enlist under the plan for| USE
training as naval aviation cadets. p46 TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS
AT FIRST
SIGN OF A
| Candidates may obtain further in.
from accredited high schools or who| formation and application blanks at |
will be graduated by June 30 will be the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection !
enlisted as apprentice seamen, V-5, foard’s office in the Widener build. |
either In person
preparatory |
January 28, 1943,
—_—— rr
LOUISA’S
LETTER
Loulsa
Dear
My brother
who chatter;
to a girl
and who i
time, He,
t
HL
in engaged
and laughs
hilarious
hand Is a very
very Httl
niways
the
fellow
act
having a
on other
who ha Lo
all our family ¢
who u
and do you
I am afral
nustaks
een
I &
aevoled
beent married
Also, single
fewer responsibilities
Wome?
White patients born in
try have re
miss}
ETroups
All pro
and especially
er of
{og
es, have a
for five years
sanitoria han Go
rate survival
ter leaving the
patients in most other occupational
BETroups
¢
cent of
Forty-eight per nt all
nts still surviving after five year:
been able to find employment
Ie chance of through-
out the five-year following
discharge increases the length
pa-
tie
had
survival
period
with
of stay in the hospital
Twenty-five per of those
discharged had to retum to a
atorium for further treatment
cent
0
san
DO YOU KNOW
Although the health of the Brit.
ish people has actually improved
since the outbreak of war, there are
exceplions...chief of which is tu-
berculosis, Increase in tuberculo-
sis is a result of war conditions...
overcrowding, increased hours of
work, limitation of protective foods
shortage of hospital beds and gen
eral war strain {
Selfishness is at the bottom of
most human conflicts: you cannot
reform your neighbors but you can
work on yourself
wr ls
Advertising is worth the money if
iyou know how to spend your mon. |
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May eause uneasiness which results a
Billiousness, Bick Headaches and Avie
Intomieation, |
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Are a purely vegetable combination, which |
if taken according to direction, stimulate |
the Liver and generally produce & good
Lasative effort. Take secording to simple
precautionary directions, Splendid for use
constipation,
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Orricr Can
“A Little Nonsense Now and Then.
Is Relished by the Wisest Men”
Thoughts From a Seldier
+ & $
Slips That Pass in the New
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Hawling Independent
Appleport, Mao. Tribune
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or
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What Price Fame
overwhrim g supremacy
ne time he anhoun
I am Dexter Feliow
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Dealer
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Lesser of Two Evils
bonds told th x
A
I've been saving
than 1 can Hitler
woman p wnt
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Rookie wis riding wanted «
to go another
Sarge—"Who won
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Twin Propeller
Paddy Pilot calls his gif] “Boniber” Dotmuse she's 18
B-19"
ang will soon
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Plenty Kick
«"T've never touched a drop of liquor’
“You mean youye never tasted anything with a kick be.
Cadet A)
Cadet Pal
hing it?”
Cadet
Al-"Oh sure. I've tasted lipstick”
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It Should Be
We understand that Congress hime pnt Shrough a big appropriation to
handle the German subs—sort of a sinking fund.
* * 0
That's all, folks, Inasmuch as the OPA has forbidden an increass in
| the price of fruit cake, if a grocery clerk tries to charge you above ceiling
| Prices for a fruit cake just say “nuts to you." :
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