The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
By Dre1e, Pearson

tation. Competition will speed them all forward for the creation of employment. For the sake of stirring up. some competition we made full disclosure of plans in the home building field two days after VIE Day. We are going to build whole communities of hom0s.
 Highways are also a good subject for competition. The States that have the best highways will lead the parade when the citizens of the U. s. set out to rediscover this country once again. California has started the snowbal rolling with a recent an- nouncement of $4OooOoOoO postwar highway pro- gram
 And now for transportation. Drew Pearson is un- canny Early this year, he predicted that we would invade the field of automobile production We were not so sure of this ourselves at that time. But now we are. We have launched an enterprise that is to produce American-sze, light weight low cost auto mobiles.
 Here is another demonstration of the creative force of competition. Since we made our announce ment the Detroit manufacturers have definitely dis closed plans to meet us in the market with their own low price cars. The press reports that Ford has lighter car: that Chevrolet has plans: and Chrysler has designs on the drawing boards. We are on our way to achieving low cost family transportatien.
 With low priced car that can get 25 to 35 miles to the gallon, we may yet make auto travel as cheap as flying. It IS generally conceded that automobile to the GAIA estimate of four to five cents per mile cost of private light-plane flight. Low cost automo bile transportation means more automobiles. More automobiles mean more employment The great force of competition has already begun to convert our hopes for employment into plans, designs and realities.
 
 prospect! The great steel corporations by virtue of the fact that steel ngot capacity has been installed in the West are now going to have competition. In the press this week. Ernest Weir the latest east ern steel man to confess his concern over western competition. Two great new steel plants have been built in the West: The Kaiser steel plant at Fon- tana Calif owned and operated by Kaiser Co, Inc, and the DP.C. plant at Geneva, Utah. owned by the people of the United States These two plants will compete with eastern steel because western business and industrial interests are uniting to keep these plants independent and to manage them efficiently in the economic interest of the West and of the nation.
 The industrialzation of the West has rolled for ward swiftly during the war. Its population has n- creased 10 per cent its trained industrial labor force has been multiplied two and one-hah times: it's in- dustrial plant has been doubled. The West now de- mands equal partnership in the U S. industrial economy. This is good competition. The thrill of the chase is on.
 Steel in the West is the prime mover in this surge of industralization Steel is seed industry. western steel price based the cost of steel pro- duction in the back yard of the West will generate the creation of most of steel-consuming indus tries. Increased consumption of manufactured goods in the West means additional employment and pro- duction, over and above any estimate that has been made of the nations postwar prospects.
 If the West achieve its industrial promise it will import more steel than before from the East. This is my challenging thought to all eastern producers The consumers of the West will not only continue to employ the workers of Youngstown and Pittsburgh but will provide jobs for additional workers at Fontana and Geneva
 Workers are, after all the customers of industry. Industry has never had many customers it has today To satisfy their demand for the goods of life, industry must keep going at full blast The American people do not have to retreat from the pnnaces of production to which they have climbed during the war. The vision of management and the skill of labor challenged to compete in the free American market and by competition to keep nation grow ing. And we are climbing aboard real merry-go- round-nay the best man get the brass ring.