ON LOCAL PLANNING
OF POST-WAR JOBS
Gerald Hesse eee Sub-

ject at Rotary Club
Meeting (\

KEEP WHEELS

Post war planning, to create jobs
in Lawrence after the war is over, .
was discussed today noon at Rotary
by Gerald Hesse, vice-president in
charge of sales at the Lawrence
Paper. Company. The _ speaker
served ‘the Chamber of Commerce
as president last year and recently
was named local chairman for the
National Committee of Economic
Development, a group which hopes
‘to have private industry ready to
go into high gear when war-born
| industries close down, and millions
of soldiers return to civilian life.
_ ~ Hesse took his theme from, “Hats
‘off to the past: coats off to the
future; let’s go” s

Must Make Plans Now |

American business men can ac<
complish anything if they set their
minds to it, said Hesse, but they
| must begin to plan now if they are
to create the necessary 7 to 10
million additional jobs required to
maintain the “American way of
| life’? after peace. A return of

workers to home work is expected
to ease the strain on creating
| private jobs,

Great responsibility rests on -
small businessmen because they
will be expected to make possible
several million jobs. Large indus-
tries already have plans at work
for rapid reconversion from war
contracts to production of consum-
er goods, Of last year’s 155 billion
dollar national income, more than
a half, or 84 billion, was in war
production.