The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-11-27

of course, would be the last resort
and all hope It will not become
necessary.
No individual or group has the
right to strike against the govern
ment Of the United States and the
American people when it imperils
our security. In a time like this
the coal miner and the railroad
man is just as much a part Of the
defense machine of America as Is
the buck private who is getting on
ly $21 a month.
War Department Explains
Last winter the entire Minneso-
ia delegation in Congress, as well
as Adjutant General e. A. Walsh,
went to bat in an attempt to have
Camp Ripley designated as a year
round training camp. AS a result
of their efforts the War Depart
ment caused a survey to be made
by a board Of Army officers which
recommended that Ripley be not
used until such time as there was
need for additional winter training
facilities. The board found that
while Ripley Is an excellent sum-
mer training camp 1t Is not adapt
ed to all-year training because the
buildings which were erected at a
cost Of about three million dollars
would have to be replaced with a
new type of barracks adapted to
Minnesota's winter climate. The
principle objection to Camp Rip
ley, as found by the board, is that
it cannot be expanded to the east
on account of the Mississippi Riv-
er, and to the west because of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Far be it from me to set myself
up as an authority on a matter of
this kind but 1t would seem that
the War Department could train
troops at Camp Ripley for service
in Alaska, Iceland and Greenland
and it is to be hoped that this
will be done.
An Important Industry
I wonder how many Of my read
ers realize that more than 25 mil
lion dollars year is paid annually
to employees of Minnesota auto
motive establishments, according
to study of government statistics
issued last week. This figure Is
fourteen per cent Of the states
total retail and wholesale trade
pay roll and the money goes to
thirty-two thousand persons who
are employed in selling, servicing,
operating filling stations, etc.
There are over twelve thousand
establishments connected with the
automobile industry in our state
that do an annual business of about
two hundred twelve million dollars.
The Office Of Production Man
agement has announced that car
production in America will be cut
56k per cent the first of the year
and am wondering just how much
unemployment this will produce
over the country. Instead Of order
ing a definite reduction in produc-
tion it would have been better had
OPM provided for a gradual re-
duction in the material to be used
in automobiles. That would have
automobile manufact-
urers to find substitutes for some
of the material now used, but it
seems that we prefer to learn the
hard way.
A Pipe Dream
The versatile Mike Halloran,
political writer for the Minneapol-
is Tribune-Star Journal, is usually
we'll informed but In a recent
article entitled ''War of thee Har-
olds" he allowed himself the
luxury Of indulging in a "pipe
dream" that must have been
rather diverting to my friends
back home
Let me quote from his article in
the Tribune-Star Jounrnal:
"The story was told in the Star
Journal Saturday of how Knutson
had just completed a tour of the
state and told political intimates
that any Of the nine congressman
save one, who would vote for a
war resolution would be ignomin-
iously defeated for reelection next
fall. The upshot Of these confer
ences was that Knutson has de-
creed that Senator Ball must go.
And that Governor Stassen must
go.
1.-The situation has not progress
ed to the stage where Knutson Is
ready to push his candidates into
the arena"
Then he proceeds to quote a
well known but anonymous Mimi
eapolis Republican who he says
gets over the state a great deal:
IT ran across Knutson's trail
now and then" he said. T get 1t
by the grapevine that he Is work.
ing out a program to ditch Joe
Ball and pit Hjalmar Peterson
against Stassen."
Friend Halloran's story would
be interesting If true. On my last
visit to Minnesota, as on two pre-
ceding visits, I spent nearly all my
time at Whitefish Lake where
there were few callers because
1t was not generally known
that I was in the state. The only
y,oipt outside NJ the District visit