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THE PEACE | From President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill we have been hearing a great deal about the ultimate peace. Many of our national leaders have advanced theories and plans for various kinds of international organizations to insure a better and more lasting peace. First, however, we should become well grounded in exactly what we are seeking, the precedents that have made this government of the people a reality. As years have passed and decade has followed decade, personal liberty has become our greatest treasure; greater than material riches; greater than life itself. Wlhen the present war broke upon the world, one by one we saw helpless nations ruthlessly crushed and starved. Then it was, we as a people realized that the American ideal was something worth fighting for; not only to keep for ourselves, but to GIVE to others. Finally, somewhere on the tossing bosom of the great Atlantic, amid a circle of grim battleships, the Atlantic Charter was born, declaring it our purpose to guarantee to the_ peoples of the world those blessings of freedom which we ourselves enjov. n To that end we dedicated our all. Burning with a true crusading fire w e aie giving the best there is within us that those sitting in the darkness of oppression might again see the light; that shackles of inhuman ideologies shall be stricken from innocent victims; that the American ideal shall cease to be merely national in scope?but develop into full fruition by world-wide application. W hen this i> accomplished?and only, then will 1 EAC L become a permanent reality. W e must be cold-blooded and ruthless in dealing with the culprits. '1 he whole bloodv band of international pirates must be put to that death of infamy which they have earned. Then the peoples of all nations must be schooled in a government by consent rather than a government by torce. LIFE LINE It doesn't do any good to throw out a life line if you don't keep a firm grip on the other end. Our men serving with the armed forces in the combat zones are counting on us to hold our end of that bnt the Red Cross life line that is their tie with home and family and our one tie with them. When emergencies arise at home problems of allotments that haven't come through, serious illness, business and financial difficulties, or the all-important letters have stopped coming and loved ones at home are worried about what may have happened, the Home Service unit of our own Red Cross chapter stands ready to start relief messages on their way to At the other end of the Red Cross line of rapid communication service are the Red Cross field directors serving wherever the U. S. armed forces are stationed. They are the consultants to whom the men may turn if they need assistance in solving problems?friends who have at their fingertips facilities for sending emergency messages back to the family at home. With Red Cross field directors on the job on the war front and Red Cross Home^ Service on call on the home front, we are never really out of touch with the men in the battle areas. It is through our Red Cross contributions that we keep this vital link unbrhken. The men, thousands of miles away, who are fighting for us, are counting on us, the folks at home, to hold our end of that line. We can't let them down! Let's give them all the help we can by contributing our full share to the 1943 RED CROSS WAR FUND now! ?Contributed. THE NEW CONGRESS AND YOU The new 78th Congress now in Mention is the most important aince the founding of this nation. Confronting it are problems of a magnitude dwarfing those of any other period in our h/istq^y, not overlooking tihose of Civil War days or of the other World War. Early Congresses, following ratification of the. Constitution of the United SUites, were devoted primarily to firmly establishing the newly founded Government and domestic matters pertinent thereto. Their wdrk was chiefly creative in nature, unhampered by conditions outside this Country. The present Congress will deaiJ mainly with adjustments, acts Changing comfitions already existing. Due to worldwide commitments in which we as a nation are involved, many of the major Bills introduced, must be considered in relation to their effect upon our Allies in this global war, not only now, but after the victorious finale. Well meaning measures intended for betterment of conditions within the United States, will have to be jettisoned because of possible harmful reaction against friendly nations. Nolonger may we pass laws without due regard to the welfare of Good Neighbor countries. A new American legislative policy will be established on Capitol Hill in i943. Regardless of motivating reasons, voters of this country, greatly changed the i complexion of Congress at the last election. As a restilt many new, inexperienced and untried men will be among those on committees and voting on the passage of laws. Will they grasp the vital importance of their position and give their true best to the task confronting them? Or will there again be jockeying, log rolling, pork barreling, vote bartering and selfish nestfeathering blocs, as heretofore? This Congress has an opportunity to be known as the greatest in our history. But if it politically fiddles while the World burns, then God save America?for nothing else can. But to every Chronicle reader, be it said that sole responsibility does not rest upon Congress. Members in both Houses are YOUR representatives. YOUR votes helped send them to Washington. YOUR taxes arid in paying their salaries. Keep in touch with these representatives of yours. Give YOUR Congressman and Senators the benefit of YOUR views on proposed legislation. Write to them freely and express YOUR opinion of pending Bills. Make this a truly representative Government. If you don't do this?and Congress fails?then upon YOUR shoulders unavoidably must rest a co-responsibility for that failure. SHARING OR SHORTAGE There are two subjects uppermost in our minds today?the fortunes of war and the "misfortunes" of rationing. Of the two, except in those homes who have felt the cold hand of the casualty list, the latter is closer home. Whether rationing is sharing or shortage depends upon how we as individuals take it. It is up to each and every one of us to make it either a part of our war effort or an unendurable hardship. No one can shirk his or her decision. We ration foods, gas, fuel oil and other commodities for one reason and one reason alone?so that there may be no unfairness. no inequality of treatment. Rationing is a practical application of the democratic ideal. It is a proof that this ideal is not merely a flowery phrasing of the thoughts of the spirit, but a definite guide to a way of life. Rationing will work only if we all work together. If we try to get extra favors for ourselves, buy from the black market, hoard beyond our needs, we are defeating ourselves. We are sapping the strength of the nation. We are giving comfort and aid to the enemy who seeks to undermine our unity. We are denying the democracy for which our fathers fought and died and we.are betraying those brave lads who are giving their lives on land, on sea-and in the air. Of course, rationing means shortages. It means a restricted way of life. The range of our activities are curtailed, but not our activities?there is more than ever for us to do. It means we will spend more time preparing less food, but we still are the best fed nation in the world. We will buy less, but we will save more. And the price of freedom is never high when compared with the cost of slavery! Rationing means sharing and shortages?but let us carry this into the realm of thought and speech, i^et us go short on hate, suspicion and dissension. IvOt us go short on careless talk about our neighbors. not condemning them wholesale because of class, creed or color. Let us share our faith and trust with them, knowing that most of them are trying to do what we are trying to do?the best ea^h of us can. Let us share our possessions and gp short on our prejudices. Let us calmly face the fact that there will be great strain upon us, great temptation to complain, great cause to resent what is net fully understood. Let us go short in speech and long on unrationed good will toward all our fellow Americans. We have a slogan which applies to rationing as it does to democracy itself. "United we stand, divided we fall." Let's prove that we are united in all things in bad times as in good, that what we have , we share alike. WHY NOT PULL TOGETHER? rv&! wert going around in ^ CIRCLES/ ^ MODE OF LIFE Several weeks a^cy- the New York Herald Tribune In an editorial reminding ub that many of the luxuries, disappearing before the Inexorable demands of the war did not exist a few yoars ago, brings before the eyes of 90 many of us who grew up In the era of the horse-and-buggy, many Interesting memories. It was in those days of the silent films when In the effort to enhance the entertainment value of what was 81111 a primitive form of entertainment films were run backward?for example?you saw a sheet of water? then unexplained splashes and figures popped out of the water feet first, and turned back sumer saults, landed on the spring board and ran backward. That naive trick can well remind us that the fabric of our American way of life Is now in reverse in rolling backward to the pre-gadget era. Inexorably the many inventions thai have altered our habits so radically and accelerated the pace of living fade out until we find ourselves in what the younger generation describes as an almost unendurable world but to those of us whose memories go back farther offers a strange familiar look. May we say at tnsl time ''this is where we came in." There were no vacuum cleaners, no electric refrigerators. no oil burners, and not even central heating in many homes?fewmotor cars, radios, or motion pictures. How in the world did we live' contented in such evil times? May I answer the question in just three, words. "Happy and contented."; For there was a substitute?or per-' haps it might be better to describe, predecessor - for each of these convenient inventions, inventions which have made life too easy. Many of the things now are about1 to be rationed, are going to be found i not an indispensable. Thro are men j and women, plenty of them, who are, well able to testify that we can live without them because we have done j so and that the life we lived in the horse-and-buggy days if more arduous was far more vigorous. Many of us! still spry at throe score plus will recall when we slept in an unheated ! room, had to shatter the ice in the wash Ixiwl for a skimpy morning toil et. Wo had to postpone a more extended ablution until water could be | heated in the reservoir in the back of that good old fashioned stove. We had no showers, no luxurious eoaktngs daily in a bath tub, but a bath once a week in a round wooden laundry tub which only a contortionist could lie down in. The genera] belief that the motor car displaced the horse and the buggy, I don't think so. I think it did away with the use of feet. Half of the errands for which we now use the car were once done on the feet and can be done again. Have you ever been in a suburban town 15 to 25 minutes from the Chicago loop and observed the serried rows of cars parked near the railroad station waiting for commuters who live but a few blocks away? Those of us who resent so bitterly the rationing of the precious gas and tires and a restriction about driving to that cocktail party, that bridge party, that evening at the club?all these might with profit contemplate an age when the motor car was unknown and thus save their indignation and their pugnacity for our enemies. One of the progenmics of the motor car was the multitude of road side marts, from the simple vegetable stand of the farmer to the picturesque restaurants, dine and dance establishments. over-night cabins, filling stations that sell food, and restaurants that sell gas?giving a new meaning' to the old road sign: "Entertainment within for man and beast." This progeny has begun to wither and fade like unwatered flowers, and glory be. trade is returning to the country store. j Today people walk, not run. to the nearest shops, they meet friends, they exchange neighborhood gossip! and a phase of the life wo put behind us thirty or more years ago has come back to be relived. Immediate Repairs Keep Shoes In Service Longer. Briner Your Shoes In Today. Aliens Shoe Repair BROAD STREET CAMDEN, 3, C. The Fourth Estate Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER SPEAK8 PLAINLY At a time when the functions of government and the powers of its boards andbureaus are growing* so rapidly that no man knows how great I they are, and when they are usually usurping the functions of the jfcourta. j j Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher TSf the New York Times, told 200 Detroit automotive and advertising executives j that the press of America and indua I try must guard the fundamentals of our system of free enterprise against ] encroachments of government, Mr. Sulzberger said: JM /^T\cannot over-emphasize the power 1 and authority plliijjg up in Washing. a| ton. I would be derelict if I were not 1 to point out that there are those is -fl my opinion who seek to nee the I smokescreen of America's foreign 1 wars to promote and forward their H American revolution. "We of the press must be alert to protect the fundamentals of our sys- 1 tem of free enterprise, apd you mustfl be doing soino more egg hatching. You must be preparing to show lbs* people of this country what industry can and will do for each man, woman and child in the community when I our major task is completed, far awsjr^fl as that goal still is." The men of industry must keep ahead of the procession in helping fl prepare a sound plan, said Mr. Salt^H berger: "Let us paint it in all thnj colors of our genius?new houses, net J cars, new education, new opportunity of every kind, "That's what democracy offers when? we, the people, do it. And to do ilT* that, we need a free press." In other words, industry must go on the offensive. It has the brain* arid it has the capital. Management* and labor must work together never before. . Our people have everythnig to g&^^H from a free enterprise system/ TheyB have everything to lose by the tension of state socialism. We Mrtfl but to hx)k around the world to prof*? this point to ourselves. Real statesmanship, nidustrial and? labor leadership, and an informed lie must cooperate to see that lb? United States remains the land W* individual opportunity. POETS' CORNER FATE Two shall be bora the whole wtd* world apart, ^And speak In different tongues, an* j have no thought KatV of the other's being, and no V<>ed; And these o'er unknowli sous, to uu. known lands, Shall cross, escaping wrcyk. defying, death; And all unconsciously shape every act. And bend each wandering *tep j this one end? That one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's meaning in j other's eyes. And two shall walk some narrow way of life, So nearly side by side that should one turn , J Ever so little space to left or" right, They needs must stand acknowledged ' face to face; And yet with wistful eyes that never meet,' With groping hands that never clasp, and lips Calling In vain to ears that never 1 hear, They seek each other all their weary days, And die unsatisfied. 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