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Show "BEST CITIZENS" AID CRIMINALS Estimating that more than 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 gallons of gasoline have been stolen or secured on counterfeited counter-feited coupons officials of the Opa declare that the black market is being operated by big-time criminals crimi-nals who formerly engaged in narcotics nar-cotics peddling, counterfeiting and book-making. The rationing of gasoline is a necessity required by the war. It is not surprising that the best brains of the underworld are willing to fight their government. The amazing amaz-ing thing, however, is that the elite of the criminal world have th enthusiastic cooperation of some of our so-called "best citizens." It is easily possible that our war leaders in their zeal to be thoroughly thor-oughly prepared for every emergency emerg-ency have instituted some measures meas-ures that experience will reveal to be more rigorous than necessary. However, they have been ordained in good faith and out of the abundance abun-dance of precaution and are designed, de-signed, primarily, to save the lives of our fighting men. There is no way for a loyal citizen cit-izen to give partial support to his (government when it is at grips with the enemy. If every citizen attempts to pass judgment upon every regulation, regardless of his inability to know all of the facts and reasons involved, the war program pro-gram will become helpless, shackled shack-led by the complainings and grumblings grum-blings of those who want others to win the war without causing them personal discomfort. |