Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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WORLD PROSPERITY THROUGH PRODUCTION FIRST PLACE ESSAY The United States wanted peace more than any other nation. To get that peace we had to produce guns, tanks, ammunition and many other products. When the Japanese attacked the United States they were quite confident. They knew the U. S. was almost totally unprepared for war, and for this reason they hoped to sweep the United States off her feet before she had a chance to realize what was happening. They had not counted on us being able to produce quantities of material quickly enough to defend our country properly. To accomplish this everyone took part. Scrap drives were held. Everyone collected old metal. Factories were built. New workers were hired. Modern America was starting to work to defend herself just as her ancestors had done in the past. With our war plants producing materials and our men fighting, the U. S. started on its way to victory. Every year her workmen produced more material. Scientists were also busy producing secret weapons. Japan simply had not realized what a powerful nation the U. S. is and what her people can and will do if it is necessary. Everyone helped win the war- from the men on the battlefields to the civilians on the home front. The people themselves hardly realized they were capable of so much. Now the United States is again at peace. Her greatest problem is how to keep that peace. She must produce enough food and other products so that her people will never be in need. She must also see that other countries do not starve. If other countries become in need, they then begin to think of war to get what they Want. Through help from the U. S.-money, machines, and education-smaller, less power- ful countries must learn to be able to produce enough so everyone will be satisied. That is the only way to keep peace. United States production led to victory in war. May she have the courage and will to lead the world to prosperity in peace through production. IRIS Goomi, Butte Valley High School. SECOND PRIZE ESSAY Only through production of goods and performance of services on a free and open com- petitive market can the world hope to gain a measure of prosperity. It was proved during the past War that nations can produce when an all-out effort is made. It is now up to the people of the world to make an all-out effort in the production and distribution of goods in peacetime. Distribution is important, as the depression in the thirties proved. For example, a record surplus of fruit, wheat, beef, pork, cotton, wool and manufactured goods were stocked in the United States. Yet millions of people were unem- ployed and lacked adequate food and clothing, because distribution of foods and service broke down for lack of buying power. In order to encourage production and still maintain sufficient buying power to consume what is produced, a balance between prices and wages must be maintained. An honest ef- fort must be made by industrial management and heads of labor organizations to work out matters of' policy and wages without having to resort to strikes. As we all know and have experienced, strikes are costly for owners, labor, and the people needing the goods and service. Examples have been furnished by some industries which have a system where the workers share in the profits, thereby encouraging labor to increase production instead of stalling, as is sometimes the case. The people of Asia, Africa and Europe will have to produce as much as they can to support themselves and, in addition to this, produce as much as they can to export to nations that need their type of goods. In this way they can get surplus money to buy goods they Cannot produce. Now, more than ever before in the history of the world, the coun- tries must establish a system of trade between nations that can exist with no major dis- agreements. At the present time the world is able to produce and distribute enough material to 2I