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Show (The following- article, by Melvin Jones, appeared in the latest issue of The Lion Alayazine. We beieve it carries a message that would prove beneficial to Milford or any other community) THE DIFFICULT WE DO NOW; THE IMPOSSIBLE TAKES A LITTLE LONGER 01 all the wartime slogans, that of the Sea Lees probably was the most expressive of the wonder-working power of intelligent thinking and a determined fighting spirit. "The difficult we do now," declared the slogan; slo-gan; "the impossible takes a little longer." The Sea Bees rank among the great heroes he-roes of World War II. Their fearlessness, ingenuity and herculean labors contributed many a glowing page to history. As members mem-bers of the Construction Battalions of the United States Navy, it was the Sea Bees who in many crucial battles prepared the beaches for troop landings, built great docks and wide roads overnight, bridged streams and installed air fields in the heart of the jungle in a matter of hours, and generally opened the way for our invading forces. This they did under every conceivable danger and hardship, often with a minimum of equipment equip-ment and materials, necessitating every kind of stratagem Theirs was the toughest sort of a job, but one that had to be done thoroughly and quickly. And the Sea Bees were equal to their job. They mastered every situation, hopeless though at first it might have seemed. They did it, because intelligent thinking showed them the way. "The difficult we do now; the impossible takes a little longer!" It was more than a Sea Bee slogan; it was their creed. And it is an inspiring one that should not be per-' mitted to pass into oblivion now that the war is over, but one that should be kept alive by each one of us. For it is as applicable applic-able today, to the handling of our present problems, as ever it was to the winning of the war. It is a slogan that in fact is greatly needed need-ed now, in this post-war era of momentous issues a creed based on the same intelligent intelli-gent thinking which enabled the Sea Bees to accomplish both the difficult and the impossible, im-possible, a philosophy that we should translate trans-late into action as aggressively as they did. For we are passing through a period when confusion seems to entange and impede na- |