The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
BY j. E. Jones

United States has just PASSED its
first anniversary in global war,
and the publication of the full story
of the tragedy OF Pearl Harbor over
cast for a period the favorable news
that came from our men battling in
Africa and round the world through
the Pacific.
Of course it is encouraging to
read in this weeks newspapers
that today, great new munitions
industry is out-producing the Axis,
particularly as these claims are
verified by the cold figures put out
by the Office of War Information in
reporting the upward swing of pro-
duction of planes, tanks, bombers,
guns, ships, and materials.
While the President has been
telling the country that there must
be mo relaxation on the part of the
manufacturers of the country" as
long as any hostile force confronts
us his Chief of War Production
lays down a measuring-stick that
proves that the United States is now
entering the third stage" of the
war, with "all-out mobilization and
centralized direction" This is a
good description Of the policy of our
Government, and it has Justified Mr.
Nelson's conclusion that free enter
prise has won its right to proceed
in the war effort with less Govern
mental control--commonly known
by the various names of "bureauc-
racy'', "red tape, socialism and
confusion.
In reviewing the first year of the
war Mr.. Nelson declared that the
success of prohibition was so mag
nificent that the American public
is hardly able to realize the great
ness of our own accomplishments.
But Mr.. Harley Lutz, professor
Public Finance Princeton Univer-
sity, really rings the bell when he
says that there is no cause to worry
about the final results of the mill
tary war, but there is reason for
the gravest concern over the out
come of our civil Wharf.-The war of
the screwy social reformers against
the American way of life'. He has
warned his countrymen against
existing political methods that have
placed "strangle-holds upon bust
ness, and which can effectively pre-
vent the private enterprise system
from reasserting it's traditional
yigor".
But despite our rubber disasters,
oil shortages, and countless other re
strictions, the fact remains that
American ingenuity, science, inven-
lion and countless discoveries in the
world of today are harbingers of
hope that American ingenuity will
,utstrip all the marvellous records
hat have been chalked up in this
wentieth century.
Taken Over BY The Government
It is almost impossible to imagine
he extent in which the big hotels,
particularly along the Eastern sea-
board, have been closed this Winter
and taken over by the Government.
Great hotels in Atlantic City and
Miami, as well as on the Chesa-
oeake Bay, and even at Williams
burg, Virginia, are under Govern
nent control.
Some of the leading private
schools of the United States have
,een Communicated by the Army
Ind Navy, and colleges and univer-
stiles are using their facilities to
meet Government needs and de-
mands.
Large divisions of the Federal
Government have been moved out
If Washington into Richmond, vir-
ginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
New York City, Chicago and else
where.
Thus, the global war pushes
everything around.
The Ways OF War
The lives and habits of millions
of people are under the control of
Donald M. Nelson as Chairman of
the War Production Board; Secre-
tary of Agriculture wickard, Leon
Henderson, Price Administrator;
James f. Byrnes, Harold Ickes, Will
liam LETTERS and James M. Lands.
Labor stability is unstable,
just as 1t has been ever since the
war began, and for half dozen
years before that time, so Paul Nc
Mutt is added to the above list, and
made Gar over Manpower.
The War Labor Board has dele
gated to the Secretary OF War the
power to rule upon all wage and
salary adjustments Of more than
1000. 900 civilian employees; and
The War Labor Board has issued an
order allowing employers 60 make