Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Buy a Bomber
Drive Endorsed
By LewisHdney
.Sarmsrkins Your Help
Ior Offensive Purpose
Praised by Economist
By r. JEROME PETIT
"Defend America-Buy Bomb
ers with Defense Savings Stamps
and Bonds

"Defend America-Buy Bomb
ers with Defense Savings Stamps
and Bonds"
f.
|, The program OF Hearst news
faper readers throughout tn
limited States TO buy bombers will
defense stamps and bonds toda!
bad the hearty and unqualified
endorsement of Lewis Haney, New
York University economies profes
|sor, whose column appears il
lIIearst papers from coast to coast
tncluding The Detroit Times.
Professor Haney's support OF TN,
current campaign, by which mil
lions of people are buying govern
)uent stamps and bonds, and speci
tying their contributions are 90 bC
Ied for bombcrS. came when ;
keader asked him what he thought
|Df the merits Of the idea.
SOUND AND GOOD PLAN
The professor replied:
"In my judgment, the idea i
sound and good. In fact. when
YOU come TO think about lit
IL surprising how much merit the
whole Buy-A-Bomber campaign
has.
"Whiie my first point may not
appeal 10 you as much as some
az the others, I want 10 put II
first anyhow, because l believe IL
IL the most fundamentally good.
IL Is that the appeal Is made 10
NSnr individual Judgment rs
YOU are asked to instruct
what should he your government
a. 10 how YOU think IL should
proceed 10 win the war for YOU
and yours.
"This II as IL should be. We
have had enough OF centralized
irresponsible doing something.
IL II time we told the powers
that be what We think.
ORDER TO ROOSEVELT
Instead OF giving Washington
on our checks 'Buy-ABomber.'
"My second point II almost A.
fundamental. When you specify
Buy A-Bomber,' you are direct
ing your government to spend
your money for war purposes.
and you are thereby putting II
on notice that you don't want
II TO waste your money for un-
necessary non-defense purposes.
"This II especially desirable
now. The President has stated
that he can't see much difference
between defense and monde
tense spending. He still clings
TO his st. Lawrence waterway
scheme. Well, then. tell him YOU
want him 10 use your money In
n way that everybody agrees will
help directly 10 win the war. Tell
him 10 buy bombers with IL.
MUST WIN BY ATTACK
Professor Haney'S other points
Concerned the methods our govern
1ent might employ to win the war
most surely and quickly
81 believe most OF Us agree,
now that we are In for II. that
the war must be won by often
slve operations" he explained.
1.-THE bomber II pre-eminentIy
a weapon OF ofense. We should
longer talk about defense
ram This il war. and Mr..
Roosevelt himself has decided 10
call daylight-saving war time
again, most Of III believe that
the airplane Is the main weapon
in this war.
perhaps as practically inn
portant as any point, however, il
the fact that the Buy A-Bombcr
campaign makes you feel ~ IL
YOU were really doing something
10 help win the war.
WRITE BUY A BOMBER
"Nhen YOU merely buy de
tense stamp. You wonder. You
may even remember seeing some
where the statement that the
chief idea IL just to take your
income away from YOU, and thus
check imitation.
"You can't get very enthusl-
astically patriotic about that.
But when you write BuyA-
II o m Der YOU can feel that
your saving will not be merely
'mopped up but will he used TO
mop up the enemy.
$50 I recommend the Buy-A-
Bomber campaign. Join in-and
realize the feeling of unity which
comes when we all do something
about which we all agree"