The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-26
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(Fseieased by Western Newspaper Union.)
WHITE COLLAR WORKER
is THE FORGOTTEN MAN
ON A BIG munitions plant being
built with government money at
Wilmington, ILL.,, carpenters are
paid $25 day; men trundling
wheelbarrows or working with pick
or shovel are paid $16 and SIT day.
In Chicago, so miles away, the
clerical forces working in the Of
fees of business and industry are
being paid from SIT to $35 week.
The carpenters and laborers in
Wilmington may, and do, dress in
coveralls; they change shirts pos
sibly once a week; they wear
coarse, unshined shoes; they enjoy
the lower rentals of the rural dis
tricts.
The clerical worker in Chicago,
If he is to hold his job, must have
a clean shirt every day; he must
wear white collar; there must be
a crease in his trousers; his shoes
must be kept cleaned and shined;
he must pay the much higher rent
ais Of the city. His income will
average about one-sixth of that OF
the carpenter at Wilmington.
To meet the ever-increasing de-
mand of taxes and labor, and to
continue to operate, business and
industry have been forced to econo-
mize in every possible way. The
white collar man has paid the bill.
He is the forgotten man" OF today.
WILL AID IN THE FIGHT
DOOR COUNTY, Wisconsin, that
strip of land that separates Lake
Michigan from Green Bay and Of
which the town of Sturgeon Bay is
the county seat, was settled origi-
nally by Scandinavian, Belgian and
Dutch farmers. The well-kept
farms of today, made from the land
from which their ancestors cut the
heavy pine timber, are in the hands
of the second and third generations
of the original settlers. These farm
ers, many of them with kinfolks in
the countries enslaved by Hitler,
are enjoying the opportunity of
building sub-chasers to destroy Ger
man submarines. At the shipyards
in Sturgeon Bay, far removed from
the scene of conflict, is being built
a feet of the little boats that are
destined to see service in the Allan
tic, and the yards are manned by
Scandinavian, Belgian and Dutch
farmers.
TAKE TO THE HILLS
"A FEW NIGHTS AGO sat in an
audience, the men of which consist
ed largely of big game hunters, SOL
diers of fortune, explorers-men
who had been to the uttermost ends
of the earth and whose lives have
been filed with hair-raising adven-
ture. The speaker of the evening
was a little, happy-faced woman and
her subject was her mountain farm
home in the Ozarks. She talked about
the charming characteristics Of the
Ozark hills people and their simple,
uneventful lives, of pet lambs and
puppy dogs, of quiet evenings be-
fore the fireplace in a log house,
of wild flowers and fruits, and she
held that audience of she" men as
no lion hunter had ever held them.
She demonstrated that it is the SIM
pie pleasures that have most APP.
peal. The speaker was Mrs. Marge
Lyon, author of "Take to the Hills. -
HOME OF REAL CULTURE
OUR GREAT CITIES have no
monopoly on culture. It is not prod
uct of the night club, the cocktail
lounge or the off-color theatrical
production. 1t is a product of the
schools, the churches, of clean
living, hone-loving people, such as
those found in the rural sections Of
America. asrs 1914 e
Culture does not breed Hitlers,
Mussolinis or Stains. 1t breeds
love, not hate. Among a cultured
class you do not find a subversive
element seeking to destroy an es-
tablished philosophy of government.
The Dies committee does not find
enemies of our American form of
government among our rural popu-
lation. It is in the small town and
on the farm where you find a love
of country, respect for its laws and
its institutions. It is there you find
the intelligence that is the founda-
ton ofsculture. ~ sxa a
The American rural community is
the real home of American culture.
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NATIONAL INCOME
aTHE department Of commerce
tells us the national income in 1902
amounted to $1,000, 000, 900 and in
1940*iit was $73, 800, O00, 900. In 38
years we had. multiplied the nation
al income more than four times; we
had more than four times as much
TO divide in 1910 than in 1902. That
was accomplished despite wars and
depressions. It was ACCOMPLISHED