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Show Iby tune edlntos Life Magazine this week rolls up its sleeves for an at-talk at-talk on the minority few who still cling to the fantastic contention con-tention that we have no business busi-ness in the current World War. There are still a Jiumber of crackpots, harmless, uninformed "saviours" trying to persuade the American public to revolt against our entry into the international conflict. For the time being. Uncle Sam is ignoring their remarks, although it. is possible that they have convinced con-vinced others of their kind that we are out of 1: is. To them Life directs a couple ol well-aimed word punches that are likely to result in a cracking down 'on unpatriotic organizations by the government. There are those who shed tears for Japan, the ''big brother" bro-ther" kind. But we admire the patience the United States had with the "yellow men." As long as we care to remember Japan tried every trick in the book to insult our Statue of Liberty, our Christianity and uur uemocrauc government. The United States didn't force Japan to show its hand. The Japs had been planning our conquest Jong before the attack at Pearl Harbor. But that's old stuff, and most of S us loyal to our Uncle Sam know that. The obnoxious Orientals asked for -s fight, nd now our soldiers, Ged Bless them are giving them Just that. There seems to be some difficulty dif-ficulty measuring the loyalty of our aliens to our country. Our opinion may seem biased to most of you, but we think we have found that yardstick of loyalty. Unless a person leaves his homeland home-land without regret there is likely like-ly to remain inside him a certain loyalty. Applied to the Japanese problem prob-lem it me tis just this: if he came here to greener pastures for reasons rea-sons of that kind he still isn't apart from Japan; if he still speaks the tongue of his homeland he still isn't apart from Japan;, if he still lives JaDanese nminmn lie isn't apart from Japan. Summarilly: If he doesn't hate , Japan he still likes it. Unquestionably there are some few innocent Japanese, as loyal to Uncle 8am as any of us, that are now suffering because of their nationality. To them we say go along with tha rest. You can prove your loyalty loy-alty to the United States by ac-"cepting ac-"cepting the handicaps without a protest. You can holp win this war by obeying your adopted government It means greater sacrifices, but you can be a greater patriot by accepting ac-cepting it as a hardship placed upon up-on you by Japan and not the United Unit-ed States. i The United China Relief drive opens in Franklin county coun-ty Monday, and that means an , opportunity to repay China for all she has done for us. Accept the request for funds as a privilege to help those who have helped us, and not as a request for contributions. 1 P. 3. Phenoi Edgley and Joe Oborn, of the Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber of Commerce (from left to right), are making plans for Preston's annual Paint-up, Clean-Up, Fix-Up Week, April 19 to 25. |