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(Continued from Page 8) in order to stimulate our foreign trade. That bit of topsyturvy economics is designed especially for the thoughtless. Following that line of reasoning, all that any business man needs to do in order to succeed is to lend his customers the money they want to buy his goods and products with. That simple device will doubtless create an active market any place, any time. But where does the value come in?

Reminds me of a story. A highwayman went into a clothing store, held up the owner with a gun, and took a hrmdred dollars out of the cash drawer. He saw a coat he liked so he took the coat with a hundred dollar price tag on it, and handed the hundred back to the store owner. Then he remarked to the storekeeper: "You see what a splendid transaction that was for you? You sold an overcoat, you did a hundred dollars worth of business on which you made your regular margin of profit, we put money in circulation because that hundred changed hands twice in five minutes, and none of this new business would have developed if I hadn't dropped in." The gunman left the storekeeper scratching his head, trying to figure the economics of the transaction. Friends, don't let them kid you. When you prime b pump and only get back what you poured in, you are out just the energy of pumping and the wear and tear on the pump.

Students of business and politics who have watched the goings on in Washington the last ten years, feel no surprise at the avalanche of union labor work stoppages that have so completely floored our efforts at reconversion. Thousands of times in the last two years you have heard business men say: "I am not worried about the outcome of the war. Sooner or later we are certain to win. But it's what will happen as soon as the war ends that I'm afraid of." You can look about you now and you'll know what they meant. But what do the returned soldiers think about it? How will they react to closed shops, when they want jobs?

Job aid legislation has played a leading part in our legislative halls in Washington as well as in our newspaper columns of late. Those who would pass laws that put a premium on laziness and in time develop a sturdy brand of mendicants, have had much to say. But there is one thing every man should remember in all this job talk. We must draw a broad line of demarcation between job aid to our returned service men, and job aid to those who stayed at home. THE RETURNED SOLDIER AND sArLoR MUST HAVE A JOB-AS GOOD A JOB AS HE IS CAPABLE OF HOLDING_BUT A JOB HE MUST HAVE. THOSE MEN WHO FOUGHT, BLED, AND OFFERED THEIR LIVES IF NEED BE FOR US, SHOULD HAVE HONORABLE EMPLOYMENT NO MATTER WHAT ELSE HAPPENS. Looks right now as though those who stayed at home are in the saddle. Which is all wrong. OUR SERVICE MEN MUST HAVE J'BS FrRST'

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that a negro presented himself the other day at a City Hall office, and asked where to go to get "that rockin' chair money." Asked what he meant he said "that money you get when you don't work." Someone told him to go to the U. S. Employment Service office, where Claims for unemployment corrpensa. tion are filed. He said: "No sir, I don't want no employment. I wants that rockin' chair money." And there are tens of thousands like him in this country right now, who not only want "rockin' chair money," but are moving heaven and earth to get it.

That there are invariabty penalties to great leadership is well illustrated in the case of General MacArthur. Picked up a paper the other day, and there was a fellow by the ' name of Dean Acheson, throwing punches at our great General. MacArthur had estimated the number of soldiers he thought would be necessary to handle the Japanese situation, and right away the new man in the State Department took exception. Ten thousand miles away and with nothing to mark him a military genius, he all of a sudden became an outspoken authority on the Jap military situa-' tion. What is the germ that bites these guys, anyway, the minute they get to Washington, and so magnifies them in their own eYes?

Always I have heard and read that there is no jealousy quite so keen as that of little men for big ones. And there, is no crime so hateful to the envious as that of daring to excel. The incident brought to mind all that MacArthur has done, for his country, for mankind, the tens of thousands of his men who still live and who owe their lives to the transcendent genius of his leadership. We owe him a debt of gratitude immeasurable. And just what do we owe his critic? As I studied the matter over, the only conclusion I could reach was the one-word reply that splendid American officer at "the bulge" made when the Germans called on him to surrender. He just said: "NIJTS!"

Other public critics including scandal mongers and keyhole peepers have been taking shots at MacArthur, also. Looks like he can't please all the wee small folks. The. littler they are, the louder they talk. Must make MacArthur feel like Gulliver did when the Liliputians got to shooting at his anldes. Every time I read one of these criticisms it reminds me of a remark I once heard the late great orator Senator Joe Bailey make. Lifting his graceful hands on high, and raising his eyes upward, he exclaimed in his great, sonorous voice : "Great God ! Witness this spectacle ! Here's a dirt dauber plucking an eagle !"

Admiral Halsey, reading about the criticism of MacArthur told the newspaper men that if the bureaucratswell meaning and otherwise-would just let MacArthur alone, he would do a grand job of handling the Japanese situation. Admiral, you took the words right out of my mouth'

Reports from Washington indicate that OPA will not get far with its demands for legislation giving it dictatorial powers over the home building industry. This industry is prepared to fight that proposition until hell freezes over, and then go a few rounds on the ice. Just think of having more Federal agents on a house job, than carpenters ! And that's what there would be, if Chester Bowles had his way.

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