The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-22

war necessity the greatest source
of new wealth which any coun-
try can have - our stock of
young managerial and executive
talent.
For a dozen years this group
has been cramped, Illustrate, I'M
productive, under the paralysis
of the depression. Now 1t has
suddenly sprung to action, its
facilities challenged, it's energies
released and expanded.
The process is something like
this, to be specific: Normally
$4,000 men work at Buick, say,
on one type of product. Today
the men who directed and man.
aged that personnel are being
swiftly spread thin over a per-
sonnet calculated to reach 49,
600, making a whole variety of
new things are unprecedentedly
and inexorably fir ii in design,
quality, precision, materials. No
barriers of cost or competition
stand between then, and per-
lection. New plant ayouts, new
machines, new allie s, new toll
erances, new techlliques, new
products, new tra'nAng require
ments all, t,iese Are crowd
ing the hea1s and aspk, atoms of
these ma.lagers. They Ore in an
educative dollhouse, and tn ~ are
burgeoning like nobody's ousi-
ness. -
BY the same token, the rank
and file in industry Is expert
encing a similar regeneration. !
suppose, before our enemies are
beaten down, ten million or
more men, and women, above
and beyond the normal indus
trial personnel, will have learn
ed a trade, most of them a ma
chine trade. They will never be
the same.
From the dread and uncer-
tain state of being q person
lacking method and capacity,
frightened and adrift because
he has no internal reliances or
assets, each becomes sustained
and aspiring by pride of craft,
dignified by the consciousness of
being a producer, and will new
er again be content until he has
found an outlet for his skill.
Something Of the same sort Of
growth will be found in most Of
the young men who enter the
Army. The six or eight millions
of them who come back will not
be the inept young CATERS who
went away. They will have
learned some truths serviceable
and grave - how to handle
themselves, how to handle other
people, how to handle the spec
ialties they dealt with in the
service and they'll be on the
prod, wanting to get set and get
ahead in the glittering new
world that's looming.
Now the big thing in making
the rich promise which lies ut
the wars end come true Is at
bottom a psychological thing.
The people - all the people =
have to believe in it. They have
to see the vision, for it is as true
in economics or in industrial
potential or in national develop
ment as in the Bible, that
"where there is no vision, the
people perish"
We had that vision once. Be-
fore we had it, in the $50 years
from Plymouth Rock to the War
of independence, we coasted
along as a snarl of colonies and
did not amount to much.
NEW HORIZONS
But out of the War for indie
pendence sprang an idea. The
people were caught up with its
force and magic. Impoverished,
on their own for the first time,
their trade, credit, markets gone,
they themselves far scattered
along a narrow strip of coast be-
tween the wilderness and the
sea, they yet saw in this new
free land a wondrous and beck
oning horizon. We ranged the
seas, the turnpikes and toll
roads, the wilderness trails,
ira d e d everywhere, suffered
every hardship and capitalized
the outcome, because we believ-