The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-11

l in what postwar life will be like.
 Maybe it is fabulous to assume that i the United Nations will win the
 war and will therefore have the dic-
 tating of the peace. But people have i always speculated about Heaven. So
 what's the harm?
 You don't have to be cosmic-con-
 scious to take in some of the post
 war struggles forming right here at
 home. In building vast new sources l of raw materials supply for war
 production, this country is letting ,. itself in for economic revolutions of ] first magnitude. To start naming l names, think over these: With the production of nylon, ray on and other synthetic f1bers step-
 ped up, will this country go back to Japanese or Chinese dominated raw silk industry?
 1 SCRAP
 RUBBER AGAIN?
 With a synthetic rubber indus try capable of producing 100000 tons a year, shall it be scrapped to go back to native rubber from the
 Netherlands East Indies and Ma lava?
 Or with new sources for up to 100000 tons of native rubber de- veloped in Latin America, shall this new hemisphere industry be permitted to die just to revive Dutch and British plantations?
 With production of the light r'etals, aluminium and magnesi- um, stepped up tremendously, shall it be allowed to lapse to pre- war proportions, or shall there be a structural revolution in which these metals will compete with the also-expanded steel production capacity of the country?
 With new sources of fats and oils developed through increased paintings of soybeans and peanuts and increased prolificacy of pigs, shall the acres go implanted and the hogs be slaughtered to revive the foreign producers from which this country imported fats and oils before the war?
 With beet sugar production stepped up, shall it be wiped out to save the cane sugar men of Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines?
 With e-fabricated housing a necessity for the war, shall this , new industry be further held back | to preserve old, slow, costly | methods of custom building?
 And so on down the line.
 ON THE
 FIRING LINE
 What these and similar questions point to is a postwar period of the most intense commercial rivalry the | world has ever known. The minute war is oVer-as soon as stop order 1 can be issued on military produc- tion = the salesmen should be out | all over the world, fighting for busi- ness harder than soldiers fought | the enemy.
 In spite of the concentration of American industry on war pro- duction today, practically every manufacturing company of import dl4CC DUH 1ldo 1Io lCSCdACll 4dU- oratories, experimental depart 1 ments and designing rooms hard at work on postwar planning | Boards of directors are devoting meetings to production for peace
 The competition within the United States for domestic mar kets will extend into international business as well, where the stakes are bigger and the boards of chance are broader.
 And you can bet your bottom dollar that every isolationist poli- tician, in this postwar period, will be in there pitching WOO of protective tariff, economic nation alism and national self -sufficiency that will be poison to the inter- nationalists who dream up per- feet world of have for the have nots, share and share alike for all the countries of the earth. The line is already forming on the very conservative right to retain for the United States every eco- homie advantage to be wrung from this entire war effort.
 The fighting really begins after it's over