The midland journal., 1942-01-09
UNITY ON WINGS
BY J. e. Jones


BY J. e. Jones
Washington, D. c., Jan. 5--Amer-
ican business announces from hum
dred thousand platforms that the
President has its complete and loyal
support--and they are all for Vic
tory.
| Workers by the millions are
standing as one-man behind the
American government, and nearly
all of them are leaving few labor
union executives to hold the trouble
bags in which closed-shops, wages
and hours, have been put away until
the day of complete Victory.
| "The Republican Party will sup
port President Roosevelt to man,
BUT it expects Senatorial, Congress
sional and State elections to be held
next year and it, GO. O. P.) will
fight to win"--Joseph w. Martin,
Chairman of the Republican Com
mittee.
The American press stands today,
as it always has in the past, as the
main prop of communications and as
the dependable source for news.
Censorship will not change the es-
tablished legitimate policies of the
Fourth Estate, or lessen the loyalty
and efforts of the press to promote
1.-THE general welfare, and secure the
blessings Of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity".
This is a war led by great ships
up in the air. A young Army Lieu
tenant from Pennsylvania who few
home from Washington for Christ
mas, explained he never had time
to waste travelling on trains, he typi-
fies the American youth Of today, al
ways in hurry, out of patience
with the old ways to win war.
American unity moves ON wings, for
turkey, home and war.
| Your National Capital in Wash
ington is armed as never before
against enemies from the air.
Assembly Lines Will Win The War
The reassuring prediction that
our assembly lines are on the way
to win the war comes from an off,
cial of a great defense manufactur-
er, who also declares that 'at this
grave hour the machine becomes the
protector of peoples right to work
1
For more than year since the
Presidents proclamation of ma
tional emergency, says Paul Gar
rett, Vice President of General Mo-
tors, 1--WE have been concentrating
on the make ready stage of our
defense program. AS we enter 1912
there comes the assurance that ma
terially and psychologically we have
Preached, thank God, the keep 'em
rolling' stage. War production will
gather momentum for the duration,
backing up the skill, the courageous
sacrifice, the fortitude Of our men
in arms.
The General Motors official offers
statistics to support his confidence
in American industry. Already in
World War II its production lines
have delivered to the Government
$10,0O0,000,000 worth of war
equipment, he reports. Not that
much had even been ordered last
March. 1t represents more than
100000 man years Of work. That
would build 16 bands of super-high-
way from coast to coast. It would
build 200 Boulder dams.
War now is war of horsepow-
err" Mr.. Garrett adds. "And indus
try in this country has no equal in
production of horsepower. Grand
Coulee Dam will generals. 2,400, 900
horsepower. But last year the in
ternal combustion engines of Gener-
al Motors alone bulked 240, 900, 900
horsepower. That is 100 Grand
Coulee dams.
Visualize from that the potential
production for all Of industry.
Your Part OF The Public Debt
You, your sweetheart, or maybe
it Is the wife, and children, each are
responsible for 1921 OF the national
debt, that being the per-capita debt
load Of every inhabitant OF the con-
tinental United States. It Is an in
crease Of $41 for every person dur
ing the past year.
That's the way the Federal Gov
ernment calculates the national
debt at new high record of $6s,-
162,000,0O0 at the close of the last
fiscal year.
Production Runs High
All the information released by
oPM shows that production of all
war materials is up to expectations.
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