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Show Editorial. Seventeen pounds of kitchen fats . saved will provide a pound and a half of glycerine, enough to fire 85 anti-tank shels The family can opener is due for a rest; WPB has order-; ed that fewer tin cans be made from now on, and in larger sizes, to save critical metals. It takes 71 railroad trains each with a minimuu of 20 cars to move an army division of about 15,000 men with their wea-, pons and equipment. Since troops traveling by rail move at a rate of about 250 miles a day, it would take almost 1,500 cers ten days to move the division across the U. S. ' "There was once a better Japan a Japan which was gro ; ping toward political democracy and toward greater prosperity and individual freedom for its c tizens. But that Japan has now been relegated to the sad category of things which might have been. For more than ten years the current has been flowing strongly in the opposite direction, gathering speed un- I till it,bas swirled into the maelstrom of warfare from which, in her case, there is no return. Japan, in choosing war, has turned her back once an d for all upon the path leading to inter national cooperation between nations and freedom and prosperity pros-perity for all peoples. There can be no hope for the democratic democra-tic Japan which might have been until the Japan which exists today has been vanquished and destroyed." ! Some Catholic chu rch organization has a dopted a ten- point after-the-ar program, and there are some parts of it that should be put over, especially in countries where Catholics are ifi control. They ask for decent living wages for workers, decent homes for the poor, etc. But it is to point ten that we wish to'pay attention. "It reads as follows! "10. Theenor- I mous inequality in distribution of wealth and control of lives j of the masses by a comparatively few rich people is against ; the social order. There must be a renewal of the Christian j spirit of brotherhood which the last few generations of scien-tific scien-tific prosperity and "get rich quick" have gone far to kill." |