Milford chronicle., 1943-01-22
WHO IS WINNING THE wARsl
N J. 3. JoNEs

! BY J. E. JONES
4 Hopes raised to new highs for
a better year in 1913, among the
classes, masses, and men in mill
tary uniforms in the National Cap
ital. Father Time rang out the
old, rang in the new, as reports
from far countries told us Ameri-
cans that the Axis devils were
surely losing the global wars. Our
public got a lot of happiness out
of that. Official receptions were
omitted in Washington. There
were lots of parties, less drinking,
than in any previous year. Natur-
ally Washington was crowded as
the population is more than double
what il was ten years ago. About
IA million people live in the
broadened d. G. area. Government
employment in the Capital in
creased $4,000 in 1912 and is now
more than 100000! The armed
forces and the numberless trans
lent" and temporary" residents
give Washington the appearance of
being the most Over-stuffed city in
the whole United States.
We are 13 months in the war, and
less than two years operating un-
der the Lend-Lease Act, which
marked the beginning of the con-
version of whole industries to war
production. About 17,500.00O work
ers are employed in factories that
were formerly devoted to private
industry.
Before Pearl HarboT appropria-
tiOns for defense" were go billion
dollars. In IL months they mount
ed to four times that amount.
When the manufacture of auto
mobiles was stopped the first thing
to be done was TO move hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of
materials, tools. machinery and
equipment out of the plants. In a
single plant in the East 60 acres of
floor space were vacated and the
scrap" piled several feet high over
an area of one and a half acres.
One building was rebuilt 26 feet
higher and in a few months that
great establishment, which | re-
membered so definitely because
had seen it in operation, was con-
verted to aircraft production. And
that is only an incident i'm the
transformation that has taken
place in production in every
branch of American industry. We
have astOnished not only our own
America, but the World.
Production Chief Donald Nelson
made the situation clear at New
Years in a statement that the
United States alone is producing
arms-actual combat weapons-in
as great volume as all the Axis
powers combined. while the output
of weapons by all the United Ma
tions is almost twice that OF their
enemies.
Our Allies wanted tankers. ships,
automobiles, bOmbers, planes, gas
oline and oil, rubber, arms and
ammunition. machinery, metals,
and the United States went short
on many of these and our railroads
and ships beat all previous rec
Ords of speed TO meet the emergen-
cies of the countries that were in
distress. United States steel and
iron, read meats" and poultry are
being sent overseas More than 30
million poundssof seeds has been
set aside for planting on foreign
soil, to grow food in the coming +
years seeds, seeds! More than a .
million American soldiers, -whe are /
taking care of themselves. are
planting, we hope, seeds of demo-
cracy for a better world. The AM
erican balance of power and
arms" must be carefully consider
ed in reaching an answer to the
question: who is winning the
wars?"
1t seems to be admitted that Eng
land saved Europe in 1910, and
that United States production and
delivered goods" has made it
possible for Great Britain and Rus
sia to hold up their ends, especial
ly as America has bolstered NOR
ale, and revitalized the determina-
ton of Allies to destroy the Axis. J
The United States has taken the
Drunt of the war in the Pacific.
That is also of major Importance
m arriving at an answer to the
question: Who is winning the
wars? Our Allies forgot TO give
credit to the United States for /
the war for them in 1918.
Was that because we walked out
IN winning the peace? Ii so. it ,
should not happen again.