RECORD RFADER-. Fred de Bruenn (right), who
almost daily for 47 years has come to the library of Cooper Union,
New York City, is shown a volume by Vernon R. Finley. Years
ago de Bruenn preferred science subjects. Now at the age of 70,
he calls more often for detective fiction “mixed with a little of
everything.” He arrives at 8:30 a.m.: leaves at 2:30 pm.
Small Business
Holds Solution Of
Unemployment
By LEIGHTON WILKIE
The only hope for the absorp
tion of all employables in the
United States lies in the success
of the small business enterprise.
This statement was made by
Leighton Wilkie, chairman of The
DoALL Company, manufacturers
of machine tools, of Des Plaines,
111.. a”d Minneapolis, Minn., fol
lowing a survey of postwar em
ployment made by that company.
This survey discloses that in
normal times, or before the war,
there were some two and three
quarter million little businessmen
in this country, employing three
men or less.
“During the war big business
pushed forward at every possible
outlet and expanded far and be
yond normal requirements,” Wil
kie pointed out. “However, this
much is certain: Graveyard shifts
MOVING
HEAVY HAULING - FREIGHTING
Done by
JACK BULLOCK and CHARLES O’LEARY
Our Equipment Is Available
Call RED 41
THE ROAD AHEAD -1946
The coming season promises a return of our
mining activities .... The life blood of Seward
Peninsula!
America is diverging from the forging of wea
pons to that of products no less essential to the
progress of a nation at peace, and already industry
is fashioning implements which are to serve our
needs in the years ahead!
We are proud of our efforts during the war
and thankful that we may continue our progress in
a community that has been our home for forty
years!
LOMEN
Commercial Co.
are a thing of the past. Surplus
employees and fringe efficiency
employees will disappear from the
big plants. It is at this point that
the smaller shops will be expected
to absorb those released from the
big plants by the resumption of
normal production.
Two Alternatives
“Thus we find that we are thor
oughly unreasonable in our de
mand that the responsibility for
absorbing unemployed workers
lies with big business. It simply
can't be done. We are left with
two alternatives: Employment by
government agencies through the
utilization of tax monies or em
ployment by small businesses.
“Secretary of Labor Schwellen
bach estimates by next April there
will be 7,000,000 employables out
of work. We know that every
small shop, and especially those
serving their immediate communi
ties. have been undermanned. If
each of these two and three-quar
ter million shops, whether they be
retail, manufacturing, or service
enterprises, can add an average of
two men to its payroll, we shall
have accomplished the re-employ
ment of 5,500,000 men and women.
This will cut a pretty big hole in
I the unemployment pattern.
“With this thought in mind, The
DoALL Company has adjusted its
entire merchandising outlook.
Develops Plan
i “It has developed an Occupa
tional-Independence Plan which
seeks to encourage the creation of
j additional small enterprises in the
metal, wood, and plastics working
field, as well as their expansion.”
Highlights of this Occupational
Independence Plan, according to
Wilkie, are, first, to provide direct
and specific assistance to veterans
enabling them to pursue peace
time occupation which offer
a high degree of security; and
second, to help produce a class of
men, who will be given an unre
stricted opportunity to develop
and become successful by their
own efforts.
The program seeks to show the
servicemen how to organize and
operate service and repair shops
which are a basic need in all com
munities.
Training Offered
This training is offered at The
DoALL Technical Institute, set up
by the company to train men and '
I women in the use of the basic
equipment of eight types of com
munity service and repair shops.
The program provides the spe
cific layouts for the various shops,
| lists the machines, tools, and ,
equipment required to begin op
eration, gives information con
cerning costs and in general cov
ers the entire prospects of the in
dustry.
A model of one of the shops in
the program, as planned by The
DoALL Company, has been set up
for inspection by veterans and
; others interested in owning and
operating their own businesses at
the Des Plaines DoALL plant.
—
She—Do you think this photo
does me justice?
He—Well, yes—justice tempered
with mercy.
Japan Can Have
Its Castor Oil
KYOTO, Japan — (>Pi — Two
thousand gallons of castor oil and
747 bugles—both heartily disliked
by GIs—were among items re
turned to the Japanese by the re
cently inactivitated 41st division.
Not returned were 7,280,000
pounds of explosives, 126 midget
submarines, 130 airplanes, 11 glid
ers, 516 mountain and anti-air
craft guns and 11 tanks, all of
which were destroyed.
Lt. Col. Irwin T. Shaw, of Des
Moines, la., division supply offi
cer, turned over to the civilian
population 690,000 pounds of
beans, 1,266,300 pounds of fish
and meat, and large quantities of
tobacco, rice, cereal and tea taken
from the Japanese army.
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