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lean people when this war is over.
nance Corporation to finance busi-lfull employment. If business again , manufacturers of standard building government. It is this:
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Right there is the basic point, I nesa and dominate it; and 1 wapt no [ I fails to give full employments, there materials. There are the laboratory , Business must, be allowed to keep
enough
savings,;
enough
profits.
think, in all planning for American gigantic governmental Works Prog-¡will be another WPA. This wiU be .‘ designers of new and more economi-
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postwar prosperity. And right there ress Administration to employ labor | so under any president'. The first .cat building materials. There are the (enough new capital, to be able to
is the reason why 1 do not h«itate to, and dominate it."
president ever tn do anything of any I wholesale .and retail dealers in build- go ahead into new investments, new
By Eric Johnston
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Busitiess and labor should be able importance for the relief of the Un- ing materials. ’ C;
_ C are the ar- ''adventures, new services.
President U. S. Chamber of Commerce say that the word upon which to
fix
the
national
mind
at
this
time
is
to
unite
toward
that
end
with
good
chitects.
Thère
are
the engineers, I Free private business is like a mo-
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employed
during
a
depression
was
a
The following appeared as the lead­
ing article in the February Reader’s simply, outrightly and frankly, oapi-, will. We should have a closer co­ i republican, Herbert Hoover. He set contractors, building-trade unions, ; torcycle. “ It * ’ must ‘ move, If it stops,
talism.
I operation between business and labor j the precedent. The precedent has financing agenci«, savings banks, 'for
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lack of gasoline, it topples. And
Digest. A great many people are
Du 1 sound old-fashioned? In this ' in the future than we have ever hud grown.
Public indignation against building and loan associations. We then, I repeat, there is only totali­
subscribers to that monthly publica­
age, which is prone to think about in the past. By cooperation l’d<. not unemployment, against its misery of have been puttering at this job, every­ tarian governmentalism.
tion but with the idea that more Sen­
welfare without thinking about the mean surrender, either by business body,'against its mi&. y of mind, has body by himself, and not getting it
We stand at a solemn parting of Ute
tinel readers do not take the Digest
wealth which is necessary to welfare, to labor or by labor to business. By grown. No Amerii .„ iresident will done. Now we will make organiza­ ways. Our business leaders and our
that) do, we present herewith Mr.
dv I sound reactionary? I summon co-operation I mean that both sides ever again permit A
rican citizens tions which will include represen­ labor leaders want freedom.
No
Johnston’s thought-provoking and
to my aid one of the wisest friends of , should jointly bring forth better to be unemployed. , They will be tatives of all elements of housing American wants slavery. But what
very well written article in full. The
labor and of businss that this coun­ fruits' of efficiency and productivity. employed by business or ttie#'will be production and we wifi produce is the price of freedom? I say it is
conclusion is irrefutable that if the
try has ever had: the late Mr. Justice
housing at a private cooperative con­ the capital with which to operate cap­
United States continues along the Brandeis. Addressing's trade union' Labor’ should drop all “make­ employed by the government.”
work" devices. It should drop all »^T say that business cah employ *all solidated cost that will baffle all the italism. The word is capitalism.
course it has followed for the past
audience in Boston, Justice Brandeis devices for getting paid for work not American citizens except those need- I public planners in the whole of Wash­
ten years that we are headed for the
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once
said:
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|i necessary or for work not done. It ed for absolutely necessary govern* I ington. Some of them would like NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
same sort of a fascism or nazl cqndi-
'It ia absolutely essential that a should drop all merely negative re­ mental functions. It can do it if it to do all this building. We will do
Notice is hereby given that the un-
tlon in the United States which we
business be profitable.
I do not sistance to improvements of ma- plana for it.
1 it first—and better.
Wq will stop dersigned, on the 26th day of Febru­
ars fighting to eliminate an all world
~~ mean merely that the business should chin« and of methods.
It should
There are two unpopular words railing at the government. We will ary, 1943. filed in the Count Court
war fronts. It is an article which
Xery^Tn this
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»ntversusUy adopt the positive policy One is capitalism, which is hated in start uuttthinking it and outdoing it for Coos County, Oregon, his final
account in the matter of the adminis­
F Fvt»«In«a*> atoAaslel
xa
'business should I be
run iiM/ior
under antasln
such utnioh
which enmo
some niiiatnndiMir
outstanding unions have certain quarters, I am nevertheless and outstripping it.”
tration of the Estate of Margarite
and ponder:
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conditions that the owner la willing already adopted.
That is, it should for it. The other is planning, which
And there are quite a few other Detlefsen, deceased; and that
said
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As ex-Captain of Marin«, Eric to
1 risk his capital in the business." help management Ip improve pro- is hated in certain other quarters. I big national-scale jobs for business to Court has made an. order fixing
Note; frisk his capital,” Mr. Bran- | cesses and to reduce costs. More than amjngvertheless for it. I say that plan. Consider our railroads. To Tuesday, April 6, 1943, at 10:00 .
Johnson displayed ccinstdmble leath-__
o'clock A. M., at the County Court
dety the sneloiogical and judicial tn
business, if it want*, to «cape from give this country a really modern room in Coquille, Oregon, as the time
emeck alertness when he landed on
novator and pioneer, was for capital* i are doing this now “in the course of being taxed for another and larger railroad system, a system as" good in and place- for bearing objections
the shor« of the District of Columbia,
great shadow, , the “War Production Drive” to win WPA, must plan; and it must plan ail its parts as it now is in its best thereto, and for the final settlement
as the new president of the Chamber; ism:
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I the war. They should keep on doing on a scale of which It lias never be­ parts, would mean at least ten billion and distribution of said estate.
of Commerce of the United Sta^, I ‘ “m’ to°’ W‘
Dated and published first time
dollars of business contracts.
and began getting the situation wvU
bxpenem-ed labor leaders gener- i it after the war to make the peace fore, even dreamed.
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nisterUed hi. Chamber of
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Bra?de? also a victory, ’fhey should mastek
Edward L. Detlef sen.
It has always planned for its own
To modernize everything in thia
in hand.
and memorize one other remark once' individual enterprises. It must how country would mean so many billions 7t& '■. ■■*!.—------_____ - Administrator,
William
Green,
Pr«*tid°nt
of
the
Commerce Board pf Directors by at
American Federation of Labor, re­ made by Justice Brandeis. He said: plau for nation-wide projects by of dollars that business could not get
<>nce calling upon the President of
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
■ “The one final way in which we can whole industries.
cently said:
through earning them and spending
the United States, who had never dis­
Notice is hereby given that the un­
“IX this country ever gets a system I improve the condition of the worker
It
must
look,
for
intsance,
at
the
them
in
20
years.
played anything -but hostility toward
dersigned
deislgned was on February 8, 1943,
I of governmental regimentation, la- is to produce more, in order that horrible houses and at the vast
We need again the spirit of the pi­ duty appointed Administrator of the
the Chamber. He then startled them
wretched, unwholesome, substandard oneers. Only this time it must be a estate of Judd M. Doering, Deceased,
even more by calling upon William ^bor
i**r will
wm suffer
suuer most.
m««u Ijbor,
camor, there
mere- - there may be more to divide,”
Mi-nhcy, "of" the i iore’ *• deeP,P interested in the pres-
Capitalism has been the greatest residential areas in which millions of planned and organized spirit. 1 say by the County Court of Coos County,
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Oregon, and all persons having claims
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AFL, and upon Philip.
Murray
and ervatlon
ervaUoh of private
‘>r,v“ta business'
bu*in*“! and
a"d la*
la' force that the world has ever known American citizens still live; and it to businessmen: Do the planning and against said estate are hereby re­
for
increased
production.
Labor
in
must
say:
the organizing that is worthy of your quired to present them to me with
Jan»« Carey of the CIO. Hesoon bor should everlastingly maintain that
“To change all this squalor and freedom or there will be 'no more proper vouchers attached and duly
knew his way about in government the owne.n> *nd
of business the future could greatly help to
^’lab^ci-cie.^nerto.’r ^‘y “other «• entity to a fair and just re- make that force even more suecessfuh ugliness into decency and sightliness t | freedom and no more businessmen verified at the Office of F. E. Mc­
Cracken, Attorney, in Coquille, Ore­
But business also must open its is a job meaning billions of dollars of
But I also say on behalf of busi- ! gon, within six months from the date
business leader who has ever come turn upon their investments.”.
Mr. Green, I hope, will everlast-j eyes to newer and better performance. business. It cannot be done small. It 1 nessmen: They cannot plan, they can- I of this notice.
to Washington.
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ingly
try to teach that truth to all I The President recently abolished has to be done big. It has to be done | not organise, they cannot maintain al
a
He is a firm believer in the propos­
Business can get no- i the WPA. Why did he ever establish I through cooperation among a tot of free system, unless they get one def­ ruary 11, 1843.
his
followers.
ition that more can be done for busi­
Raymond Doering,
There are the inite concession from labor and from 415
When it it Because business was not giving I different elements.
Administrator of said Estate
ness by persons! acquaintance and where by starving labor,
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conference than by charges and coun­ starves labor, It is starving the .pur­
ter-charges in the press. He is now chasers of Its own products. But la­
in frequent demand as a conciliator bor, similarly, cannot get anywhere
in Washington disputes between con­ by starving capital. When it makes
flicting elements. He is a member demands which starvo capital of all
(rerpeaenting industry) of the citi­ profits and savings, It is preventing
zens' committee assisting Economic the creation of new and better jobs.
Stabilization Board Chairman James It is starving its own future.
People will never understand this
F. Byrnes. He is active in the Com­
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mittee for Economic Development 'point unless we say capitalism.
The same remark can be made on
through which many eminent indus­
trialists are preparing for America's the point of taxes. •
Just because we have not said capi­
postwar business future under the
chairmanship of Paul a. Hoffman, talism, a great many people—in poll­
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rt-esident of the Studebaker Corpor­ ing booths and in legislative bodies
I — have thought that you can tax
ation.
Mr. Johnston represents the youth­ business just as much as you like and
ful spirit of the West. He operates ■ stjll have "Free Enterprise” and “the
several successful business« in Spo- , American Way of Life." You cannot
kane, Washington; and he is only 4a.B«e,u*e: Ju,t »uppose that you taxed
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savinffA
which is practically juvenile a for ' | at!
savings and
and all
all nAw
new nrnfits
profits
Washington D. C.
j |*nd aH new c»Pital out of private
I am for capitalism; and almost aB 'h“n<te lnt6 the P«b,lc treasury. What
tabor leaders I know are really just twould >ou have
t0
,he cr‘’«u»*
as much for it as I am. They do not ot new
On,y the fovemment
go along with the idea that “capital- 'On,y the totalitarian state,
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is dead.” They
know ____
that _____
either i Hardly anybody in" America delib-
private business
or government
rato,y wants totalitarianism. What
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ununrnmnni bu-j^
Hit-
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threatens
us is 'unintentional totali
reaucracy must save this country
when the war ia over; and they pre- | 'tariant8m. Unless we use our heads,
i we can slip into it absentmindedly.
fer private business.
On the subject of tRxes, some meet­
They have a sound reason. You
cannot strike against a government. ings have been started in Washing­
You cannot even truly bargain with ton between economic experts rep­
a government. Wages «¿1 hours in resenting the Chamber of Commerce
government employment are fixed by rt th« United Stat«, the National
public law. No group of government Association of Manufacturers, the
employ« can overturn public law American Federation of Labor and
enacted by the Congress and backed the Congress of Industrial Organiza­
by the army and navy.
In any tions. Labor today has its thinkers.
knockdown contest between a govern­ I am hoping that these thinkers may
ment and a union, the union is beaten arrive at many points of agre«ment
as to future tax«.
from the* start.. .
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K CIO leader in Washington had i Everybody now is willing to be
good sense when he remarked the1 taxed right down to his last ¿rust of
other day: "I would rather bargain bread rather than let the Axis win.
with any private employer than with But what about the day after vic­
any bureaucrat. The bureaucrat has tory? How do we iMume and con­
tinue and expand and improve our
jails.”
I-abor and business therefore can 1 economic freedom as we have known
be firm allies in'preventing the gov- it?
ernmentailzation of this country. I
Business leaders are (Anting much
S. SHELLS mutt travel 4.000
fear no direct, effort by labor to de- thought upon this problem,
They
Here are Just a few
• miles in wood crates ... to
stroy business in favor of govern- s sometim«
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do not realize
i._ that labor
of the thousands of
speed the last few miles from our guns
ment. Whet I fear is that people in leaders are, too. I think it extremely
needs for wood in war}
general—including millions who are significant and hopeful that the
.into enemy positions!
wage workers and millions who are Amercian Federation of Labor has
RAILROAD TIES
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Machine guns, jeeps, clothing, food, air*
not—may forget just what it is that made recommendations to the Con­
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plane engines, nearly every item on the mili­
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makes business go.
gress ax follows:
tary list of needs must be crated and ahipped
For this I very considerably blame
“Provisions should bejnade for the
HEADQUARTERS FIELD
to battle fronts in wood!
us businessmen, We are too mealy- return, in cash, after the war. of a
DESKS
mouthed about the basic principle part of the present high taxes. We
Yea I West Coast wood is vital in many
SKIS
of our economic system. We have can well tx* guided by the English
things besides airplanes, barges, ponton
been intimidated by all the tirades policy which proposes to return a
bridges, PT boats and aircraft carrier decks I
INSTRUMENT BOXES
against “bloated capitalists" and high percentage x>f the taxes now as­
At every port lumber reserves are following
“swollen profits.” Wfe ter that tt.e sessed against l<>w-inc<>me workers.
SENTRY BOXES
* the Yanks overseas for docks, warehouses,
word capitalism is unpopular. So we Corporations also need a postwar re
bomb-proof shelters and scores of other uses.
CRASH REPAIRS FOR
take refuge in a nebulous phrase and serve in order to convert their facili­
BATTLESHIPS
talk about the "Free Enterprise Sys­ ties from war pse to peace use and
There's a loyal army of forest front fighters
tem.” And we even run to cover in in order to maintain employment.
In the West Coast woods "loggin’ like hell”—
TRUCK BODIES
the folds of the flag and talk about We think that any corporation called
to produce the timber the United Nationa
FREIGHT CARS
the “American Way of Life.”
on to pay more than 75 per cant of
need I The~’«-e matching needs with logs I
Such ' language disastrously ob­ its total net income under the war'
FOUNDRY PATTERNS
scures the main issue. You cannot taxation laws should be eligible to
receive
a
refund
of
such
excess
when
OVER-SEAS
BARRACKS
take a whiff of “free enterprise” or a
stretch of a “way of life” and start the war is over."
CRASH BOATS
a factory with it To start a fac-
Here is u frank recognition of the i
tory. apd to «tart the jobs inaid»the pr^^^s^aOduoaMM^RMBaU
.factory, $atf‘1ila*Ni’JtlF*-iiMA Sa*aitigi<^ itj* We-Heed* not'onhr lYvedbnr*'hije
You have to have money. You have freedom pita capital. Our taxes after
to have capltel.
| the war must permit troth employers
It takes thousands of dollars of und employees .to. stand on their own
capital to equip a really modern fac-
a:,d ’“•* become ward; of t!ic
tory with the machinery for one job i government. This objective vox ad-
for one wage worker. Freedom and mirably staled the uther day by.
Americanism are the atmosphere. Robert Watt, a labor leader of great
But capital is the seed in the soil, prominence in government ,...rtime'
Unless we produce that seed, and «*- »Renci« He said:
lass we plant It, there will be no new ' “After this war I want no gigantic
crops of private jobs tor the Amer- governmental
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