Show After Hours Hour i The following editorial appeared In the March issue e of PRINTERS PRINTERS PRINTERS PRINTERS' PRINT PRINT- ERS ERS' INK It was by W. W J. J Weir Copy Director of Lord and Thomas and expresses the minds of many at this time Ve We reprint it with pleasure Dont Don't get me wrong wrong- Im I'm just justan an ordinary guy Im I'm not trying tr to pose as an expert on the of public opinion Im I'm not talking big about what Id I'd do if it was my I job to whip up the country on the war effort I Im I'm talking as an average citizen Im I'm saying not what Id I'd like to tell I them but what Id I'd like to be told I Soon j I Because Im I'm concerned and Ive I've J I been concerned about my reaction to all that's been happening Sure i I Im I'm buying bonds Im I'm paying tax tax- es Im I'm doing with less sugar I But d deep ep down inside down where it It really matters something hasn't I taken place yet that I feel ought to take place Im I'm all a welter of confusion there It keeps me scratching scratching scratching my head and mopping my brow when I know I ought to be clenching my fists You understand Its It's like this I want to be told told told- not to buy Defense Defense Defense De De- Stamps or Defense Bonds I want to be told to buy VICTORY Stamps or WAR WAn Bonds I want to be told told told- not about the of houses in Defense Defense Defense De De- I Areas I wan to be told about about a- a I bout the construction of houses in War Productions Areas I want to be told told told- not to re remember remember remember re- re member I want to tobe tobe tobe be told to take Tokio to bomb Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin to raze raw Rome I want to be told told told- not to do my part to keep or Fascism I I I I from these shores I want to be told to do my part to spread Ameri Americanism Amer Amer- i to ALL shores I want to be told told told- not to help keep our world and our way of life j from being lost I want to be told to help build a new world and a I better wa way of life I want a positive program instead lof of a passive one I want to fight for for for- forIm Im I'm sick and tired of I having only something to fight a- a Im I'm hungry for or something to get pe pet up about Im I'm re repelled repelled repelled re- re from having only something to do do- do donot not just wait for from Crom having only something it It hasn't been so long since the thelast thelast the thelast last war that I forget what happened happen happen- ed then I remember the parades and the speeches and the ringing slogans Then we fought to make the world safe for democracy We I bought Liberty Bonds We sang I Ithe the Yanks were coming I IVe I'Ve We Ve set out to avenge Belgium Belgium- not just remember it We Ve made a avow avow I Ivow vow that wed we'd reach Berlin or bust We to toyed ed with plans to hang the Kaiser We Ve warned the Hun to keep your head down Fritzie-bo Fritzie Fritzie boy 1 We girded ourselves ourse for a Crusade we we didn't close the doors for a siege We ye hated the Kaiser Kaiser- we didn't laugh at him We printed his loathsome loathsome loath loath- some physiognomy on toilet loath loath-I paper to to make the most ignominious use of It We Ve likened his upturned I handle-bars handle to the devils devil's horns I Inot not to anything so harmless and pathetic as the famous hirsute prop Charlie Chaplin plasters on his upper upper upper up up- per per lips lip We Ve saw nothing to be amused amused amused a- a mused about in his vain and pompous pompous pompous pom pom- as we do today In puffy strutting We Ve didn't pin our hopes on m the defective defective defective defect defect- ive eyesight of or our enemy We planted war gardens We Ve poured our money into war chests We Vc had ad Sunday and yelled Slacker at anyone who dared to venture out In his Winton or Hup- Hup mobile or Stearns We Ve even even even ev ev- ev- ev en churned one pound of butter Into Into Into In In- to two pounds and did it with as much will as If we were out ammunition We Ve took the offensive psychologically psychologically psychologically long before we took it phys phys- And if we hadn't taken it psychologically wed we'd never have I developed the drive to take Is IsI I physically And dont don't tell me we cant can't do the same now I want to sing that today we control our own tomorrow I I the destiny of the whole world I I want to sail against Germany against against against a- a Italy against Japan If they can sail against us and out allies why cant can't we sail against them I I want to construct a greater America America A- A merica co- co prosperity co-prosperity sphere I want to correct the mistakes of the Versailes treaty insofar as they al allowed allowed al- al lowed all this to happen I want to win lebensraum for the democratic democratic demo demo- cratic way of life Im I'm fed up with singing plaintive songs songs- I want to sing battle songs Dont Don't tell me therell there'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of or Dover To hell with bluebirds Tell me therell there'll there there- I si silence silence silence si- si ll be and a deathly lence over Berchtesgaden Im I'm bored with keeping a stiff upper lip lip lip- I want to a stiff uppercut Im I'm tired of f being made to feel sad I want the experience experience experience ex ex- the purging the marshalling marshalling marshalling mar mar- experience of being made to feel mad FIGHTING mad You get me V V VV VV VV V V VV VV VV V V VV VV vV V V Vv VV Vv v |