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Show THIS BUSINESS - t SUSAN THAYER WH-L I jU L NOW IS THE TIME it's going to mean tedious work and little inconveniences for most of us rather than dangerous, spectacular spec-tacular deeds, and that faithful, painstaking work in thousands of factories as much as brilliant fighting fight-ing forces are required to achieve the victory. There is danger now of that buoyant enthusiasm and that sense of unity dying down as we begin to go our separate ways again, thinking more of our individual interest in-terest than we do of the country as a whole. So now is the time to realize with our minds, as well as feel with our hearts, what America Amer-ica really means; what our constitution, consti-tution, our bill of rights, our every day ways of freedom signify in a world where there is oppression and fear and slavery. Now is the time to study the history his-tory of this country and learn what has made it great and what makes ultimate triumph a foregone conclusion. con-clusion. Now is the time to appreciate appre-ciate anew the production capacity of free men working together in a system of free enterprise to produce, pro-duce, as Mr. Churchill said, "results "re-sults in war power beyond anything any-thing which has been seen or foreseen fore-seen in the dictator states." Then, with knowledge supporting emotion, emo-tion, we, the women of America, can maintain the morale required for the support of the' long and bitter struggle! Now is the time to remember the- glow of love you felt for your family on Christmas when the children stood looking at the lighted light-ed tree with radiant faces. Even if it's a gray January day and you're trying to think of what to have for supper tonight, remember. Now is the time to hang onto thos New Year's resolutions you made with such . gusto on New Year's eve just as the bells were ringing the new year in. Even if things have gone wrong all day and you think, what's the use now is the time. Now is the time, too, for you to recapture that new loyalty and devotion you felt for your country that first Monday in December when bombs fell for the first time on American soil. You were, ready then to. give unstintingly of your time, your effort, your love, to help make America as strong as she must be in the months to come. You felt united, as never before, with all other Americans in an inspiring in-spiring new kind of brotherhood and knew that we could face any enemy. You were thrilled that first week at the sight of an American flag and whenever the "Star Spangled Span-gled Banner" was played you not only stood up you sang at the top of your lungs, out of sheer devotion de-votion to your country! You were actually glad to be living in a time of such significance . . . and felt alive . . . competent . . . ready for anything. . But weeks have passed since then. We're used to being "at war," and we begin to realize that |