The Ely miner., 1941-04-10
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released by Western Newspaper Union,

ClIlSSy tOWnS anu IdTIIlS, nave q
vital interest in the labor turmoil
throughout the nation.
AS taxpayers, we are interested in
the terrific increase in cost OF the
preparedness program these strikes
involve and which we must pay.
AS consumers, we are interested
In the increased costs Of the things
we must buy.
But our greatest interest is in the
effect it may have on our system Of
government, on our way of life, on
our future as nation.
A part, a small part, of the tur-
moil is occasioned by an honest eff
fort on the part of labor leaders to
better conditions of the working
classes, to increase their standard
of living. With that small part the
vast majority of American people
will have no objection, will offer no
protest.
Another part, and large part, is
,occasioned by gangsters, not work
ing men, who have seized control
of labor organizations and who are
seeking personal profit from the agi-
tation they create. All too many of
the labor organizations are today
controlled by such gangsters, who
are collecting vast sums from the
working classes and reporting to no
one but themselves.
Another part, also large part,
and one in which we Americans are
especially concerned, is occasioned
by fifth colunnists who would,
through created labor difficulties,
change our form of government, our
way of life.
Representative Dies, after long
and careful investigation, tells us
the Communist party is attempting,
through the creation of industrial
strife, to socialize American indus
try and remodel it on the Russian
plan.
Former Ambassador Bullitt tells
us that because of these industrial
conflicts, we are headed for the fate
that befell France.
It is the part of the industrial tur-
moil engendered by these alien isms
that is our greatest concern. We OBJ
ject to the sabotaging of that sys-
tenn, that way of life which has made
us the most prosperous people, with
the highest standard of living of any
nation on earth.
America cannot countenance such
alien methods. Our political leaders
of all parties should realize the vast
majority of all of us-laboring men,
farmers, manufacturers, merchants,
all-are strenuously opposed to a
continuance of the activities of the
adherents of any European ism in
their efforts to destroy us; that we
demand legislation to stop the call
ing of unjustifed strikes, the under
lying purpose of which is to under
mine the American system of gov
ernment.
The fifth colunnnist and the gang
ster will go to all lengths to gain
their ends. There is no place in
American labor organizations for
either or these.
OH FOR THE FOOD
OF THE I941 SOLDIER
1T IS A LONG JUMP from
canned willie," salt pork, boiled
spuds, boiled beans, hardtack and
cheap coffee to roast duck, turkey,
ribs of beef and Yorkshire pudding,
asparagus tips, au gratin potatoes,
ladyfingers, lemon meringue pie,
cream puffs, and all the other deli
cacies which can be found on a
Waldorf-Astoria menu.
That represents the difference be-
tween soldering in 1898 and soldier
ing in 1941. I was soldering In 1893
and as I see the difference, am sor-
ry / am past the draft age in l941.
Well do I remember how, as a
cavalry troop officer, confscated
a box of cake, cookies and other
sweets which a fond mother sent
to her son, because the doctors told
me no soldier could eat such food
and survive the rigors of soldiers
life and work.
AS I see the luxurious barracks
constructed for our soldiers of to-
day, I recall how I was threatened
with a court-martial because I had
taken the dividend my troop re-
ceived from the regimental canteen
to buy lumber for floors in our troop
tents so the men might get out of
tie mud and stay out of the hos
pitals. That is another difference
between soldering in 1898 and sol
diering in 1941.
In 1898 the ''top kick" assigned
the dumbest men of the troop-the
men who could not do "fours right
and ''fours left" to the kitchen as
cooks. Now they give company
cooks a special schooling, teach
them all about calories and vita
minis, before they permit them to
cook, and for cooking they pay them
extra money. What a jump from
1898 to 1941.
Even as late as 1918, rations were
not tops, but they had improved as
compared to 1898. / stopped one
day for a meal with Texas outfit in
France just before the close of the
first World war, and it consisted
of beef stew-the best beef stew
/ ever ate, and better than anything
one could get in England at the
time. I thought it was the best
soldier food ever heard of, but il
did not compare with the things
our soldier boys are being served
today.
Who would not want to be sol
dier?
ARGENTINE BEEF