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Friday, March 26, 1943
THE BATTLE OF LIFE
Keep on fighting, it will soon be dawn.
It takes a brave soldier to keep fighting
on.
The battle of life has its sorrows and
troubles, it's true,
But it's the spirit, my comrade that will
bring you through.
Keep on fighting, stand by your guns;
You never can tell when the battle may
be won.
Keep on fitting; what did the sergeant
say? ,
They are hoisting the white flag and we
carried the day.
There is a battle we all will lose some
It's th embattle of life?God willed it that
way. ?Contributed.
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.
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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. And this is
Fate. v
?Susan Marr Spauldlng.
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