The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-22
THAT GUY KAISER


Thot guy koser, we are told, is an exosPeroting
chop-o rouehneck who grabs heh-ronkno eener.
ais by their throots in the heat Of discussion and has
20 be pulled off, who drives odmros into violent roe
es; who tricks busy government officials into vioot
ina their routnes his beholf who plays one bross
hat against another to get decisions; who uPsets the
\ orderly methods Of the U. S. Employment Service;
WHO has no dignity himself and no respect for the
\ dignity Of Others
Therefore the word is passed around in Washing
ton, Were not quite sold on Koser. We want to
know little more about him before"
Know little more whot?
You remember sitting in hotel breakfast room,
or in Pullman smoker, or in trolley bus,
and your neehbor, eloneine at the headlines al
most Gospel:
'Thot guy Kaiser has launched Liberty Ship in
10 doys"
You remember when Koiser was asked by an 3D.
nriroI he could build Liberty Ship in 40 doys and
responded without hesitation: "I' build one in 81
doys"
You remember that the admiral gave the fooIhor.
dy guy Kaiser chance to hedge his boostfuIness,
and inquired il 81 days wasn't an error "Yes," said
Kaiser, II wos wrong. III build one in 81 doys."
You rennember-if you have q Washington news
paper friend-how Koiser announced thot he was go
Ing to lay the keel for Liberty Ship, launch it in 10
O0ySs oVO tOIn " over, Ieooy 10 ITO UP 10 'O0O"'S
dock, in five dogs more. The reporters, Koser I'D.
n,iren. decided thot this time the old man had
stepped himself.
So thot guy koser went back to Oregon and did
the impossible In foct, he beat it. He met the TO-
doy launching program, and cut doy off the five
allowed for outfittine.
Since wor production began, long before the pub.
lie knew there guy named Kaiser, this man hos
bssn doing different things which we're so difficult
that the experts sod they couldn't be done.
Yet still. in Washington, the general Official off,
ths.reeord estimate seems to be: "We're not quite
soId on koser He hasn't any plans All he has is
pretty pictures"
II Kosers record does not enttIe him to the
chance to attempt the impossible. when we ore los
ina the war for lack Of what he offers to produce,
then how do we hope to win?
Is It detailed bIueprints that Hitler feors or ships
and planes?
WHO WILL WIN THE WARP
Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear an able military veteran, soys
that the war will be won by ground troops. A large
segment Of orticuIote opinion believes it will be
by eviction.
Experts soy only ond-bosed aircraft have any ma.
jor value. naval hero soys only eorrerbosed planes
hove been worth their sot in fighting Jop croft.
WHO will win the war? Isn't it possible that each
or necesSory-t that the war may be won by the in
tsIlioent Of all weapons, each playing on assigned
part in q moster plan?
DAVIS SCOTS
Elmer Davis, director Of war information, does not
believe thot the Nozis will bomb this country even
with token rods because he credits Hitler with intel
yjioenes enough to realize that such bombing would be
list wot IS needed to really wake UP to the foet
stt,ot ~ are at war.
A. We ooree with Mr.. Dovis We do not believe thot
|oednoY eivion defense precautions should be re-
~ the raid worden system soekened. Hitler .
yfspve< Z moment Of desperation, to be less con-
~ tAo01eemed
E1tsf &aouId have US where he sup
krsot estoin offer Dunkirk, II is doubt
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