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TYLE-BORD will be bqck better thon eyer iust qs soon qs moteriols ore releqsed from wor production. This meqns q reol opportunity for tumber ond building moleriol deoters in bothroom ond kitchen wolls for both new homes ond modernizotion. Stort counting the bothtubs in your territory now . . . see how big lhis opportunity reolly it. The huge Colotyle plont is being streomlined to increose production lremendously lo qccommodole your onlicipoled orders.

Mqnufoctured by COLOIYIE CORPORATION, Auroro ot Mercer, Seqfile 9, Wosh. Largest Manulacturer of Pre-Finished Wallboards in the West

The headlines carry news today, A blessed time is near: And hope is high in every heart Tlrat peace will soon be here. And bells will ring, and sirens blow, Proclaiming war is done, As tears will fow in thankfulness For every mother's son. It may be weeks, it may be months, Before we see the day, But we can hope, and we can dream, And, also, we can pray.

-Hilda Butler Farr.

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A poem of unknown authorship entitled "The Ballad of Sir Andrew Barton," discusses war in lurid terms, and is frequently quoted. Flere are three popular lines from the poem:

"A little I'm hurt, but not yet slain, I'll but lie down and bleed a while, And then I'll rise and fight again."

We can only gather from the foregoing that Sir Andrew was a mighty tough fighting man.

{<. t >t< rn world war r r"r, ,iurl,rr].rr""r,, were taken prisoner by the Germans. But at Bataan alone the Japs captured about 35,000 Americans in this war. In World War I the draft yielded 6,373,4L4 men available for service, of which number 2,702,687 were inducted, and 1,390,000 reached the fighting fronts' ,r >{< >r< ff you're not getting "r, an. *r""ey you need, don't blame the Government. The United States mint is turning out coin at a rate never dreamed of before. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, L944, we issued more than three billion finished coins of all denomination. A few years back three hundred millions was considered a big year. So, if you're not getting your share you can't blame Mrs. Nellie ever since she was Governor*of Wyom,ing.

Some of our boys come back from the Pacific as tough as the police dogs we train for war. I read about a returned, wounded Marine, who was getting pushed around and didn't like it: Someone said to him, "What did you say to that tough taxi-driver that cooled him off so fast?" The Marine said: "I just told him I'd tear his arm off and feed it to him."

World War I cost the country about fifty billions of dollars, all told. The item of waste alone would reach that total in this war, if all the facts could be set up.

I remarked in this column last issue while trying to re' duce our vital economic situation into simple terms, that there is no subject on earth so generally misunderstood as the subject of money. Here is what I mean. Money is strange stu,ff. Few men understand it. Many of those who pose as experts on the subject are as ignorant of its realities as a troglodyte on the ocean bed is ignorant of the science of astronomy. I could name names, but if I did this might be construed as political talk. Few people realize, for instance, that money is only useful when it is scarce. In this respect it differs from most other goods or commodities. Food, clothing, or shelter, as an example, would still be useful even though produced in such quantities that they could be had for little or nothing. But money is only useful when people have so little of it that they are willing to work to get it. In working to get money they produce the things they all need and want. Right now people are willing to work hard to get money, and as a result they produce the prodigious quantities of everything we need to solve our present **.1 nt_.Otfms of supply.

Money does its work by CIRCULATING. In this. also, it differs from most other useful things. Food, clothing, and shelter, for instance, finally stay with the person who buys and consumes them. Circulation of money creates purchasing power and prosperity only when it gets useful things produced and moving into the hands gf consumers.

POLICIE,S THAT RESTRICT PRODUCTION

HOLD BACK BUYING POWER NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY rS PUT rNTO*CIRC*ULATTON.

Two men did more for the cause of the laboring man in the United States than all others combined. They were Henry Ford and Samuel Gompers. Henry Ford voluntarily increased the wages of his employees to a height that neither labor nor labor unions had up to that time even dreamed of asking for. Samuel Gompers was the very wise and conservative leader of the American Federation of Labor whose policies and preachings were so sound that he led his people like Moses, safely toward the promised land of better things for the toiler. A fair sample of the wise philosophies of Gompers was the following utterance: "One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of men's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentnlent is aroused, and nothing is gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to men's reason can a movement succeed."

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PLAIT VOAR, PLATTT DRIVE NOW!

Good organization will be needed to sell the 6th. The task of raising the huge sum required will be the most .li+ficult ever asked of Industry. As each new military success brings us closer to Victory, the public naturally will feel that the urgency of war financing is lessened-whereas it isn't. So organi"e now to prevent a letdown on the home-Iront from causing a letdown on the fighting front. Build your plant's payroll campaign around this fighting &Point PIan. You don't have.to wait for the ofEclal Drive to start-swing into action NOW!

1 BOND COMMITTEE-Appoint a 6th War Loan Bond (bl lrc-drive letter to eaployees frca mazogeaezt aad - Comnittee trom labor, maniiement and each represeut- Gl l]Hli.titin" prcgress hoards. ative group oI the firm.

(4, Meetiag eehedules, etc.

}TEAYI CAPTAINS-select a ieam captain, Ior each 6 CARD FOR EACH WORfER-Digailyeachpersonal - l0 workers, Irom men aad women oa the payroll-but approach with a pledge, order, or authorization card not in a supervisory capacity. Returned veterar.s rnale nade out ia ihe name ol each worker. Provide for a nost effective caplains. cash purchase 61 inslallnsal pledge. Instruct each capg euorA-ser a quora ror each department and each ,f"ff;f f::JJ#t}ffiJff:*'*f;| "" emproyee.

4 MEETING oF cAPTAtNS-Giv9 a powerlut presen- 7.1T..9T:trATIoN-People don't mind beins asked rauoE or ure rmponance or rhe work assisnef,iffi:il. li]ll,T".*'l-:1'::n:'r1*':::-h.-"itl']::-:'T:* ,i rlre enc oI ille Clnve rD a rasr rnoPup calllpargE. \-au Instluct them in sales procedure. Have them caretully _:-_ :-study rhe Treasury Booilet, Gettinq *. ora"i.""*' ,Tir"a:?S.tJ."i."Jlri31""o"'-an1 he's readv with a

5 A:lI9-"yENTS-Assisn responsibfities nt-'^---,-^ I

ADVERTISE THE DRrvE-use an possibre space ia l) Music, epeec&es and aaaounceueats of the opeatag ' ' rolly.' ' the regular media you employ io iell the War Boud story.

The Treanry Department achnotiledges uith appreciation tbe pttblication of tbis message by

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I made another remark in this column recently that I want to discuss further. .I said that if business is turned loose, unhampered, with the iron heel of Government removed from its neck for the first time since 1933, there would be no trouble producing "good jobs for all good men." True. But what about' jobs for those who are not to be classified as "good men?" If you don't think that is to be one of our vital hurdles after the war ends, then you have not givCn the subject fair consideration. Here's r'hat r mean'

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A friend handed me a very interesting and readable little booklet recently, a thing of humorous intent, yet with a serious background. The writer told how he had been rebuffed, insulted, and pushed around by various and sundry public servants everywhere he went since the war started, until finally he got a little black book, and a pencil, and started keeping track of the culprits who had aroused his wrath by their unfair treatment. Down in that book he puts every person he meets who takes advantage of the war situation and the help shortage to be rude, indifferent' insulting, or what have you. He may not know their names, but he makes the entry in the book so that he can surely identify them, and after the name he writes down what they are guilty of. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE HE war ends I will never buy a thing from those sales ladies again." He said: "Madam, I can tell you one more thing; THE DAY THE \vAR ENDS THEY WON'T BE WORKING HERE ANY MORE.' **{<

And after she left he said to me: "I'm planning a V-Day of my own. That will be the day when I can get decent help again, when I will stand in the door and hand their pink slips to every man and uroman in this store who has deliberately taken advantage of the help shortage and mistreated and imposed on me and rny customers."

Nothing isolated o, .rrrri.,ri, "lo.r. that feeling. It seems to be general. Most places of business, great and small, from little cafes to big industries, have their quota of people who have taken advantage of the war situation in some fashion or other to make themselves obnoxious. You can't help feeling sorry for humans so short-sighted. Instead of realizing that these unusual times furnish wise men and women fine opportunity for building GOOD instead of BAD reputations that will hold their jobs when jobs are scarcer, they let their weaknesses come to the surface and show themselves all too plainly; and right away get their names on the "hydrophobia list" of their place of employment. And when the tirne comes they will hit the skids. ***