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Show "Rick-'R3 To the Nation By GEORGE PECK Most of us heard Cami, Rickenbaeker teU it 0? r dio or read In the new' account of his advent ' adrift in a rubber Webl? Pacific. All of us a?.1" "Rick" came safely tW terrific ordeal While of his own personal n ' without attempting to could not pass by Ule op. to contrast the twmendSST? fices being made by our t"''" active service with the w. 45 cant sacrifices (?) our populace Is making. C!ti: The indestructible CaDUi that if our combat tC be brought home to ,C sent war factory workers, wJ tion would double almost to " twinkling of an eye. We asrw V "Rick". Unfortunately Uiij fi, be done. As is always the times of war, the combaianu called upon to make the g- ( sacrifices. They always have'hl always will be the number heroes. ' To our troops at Guadalcanal v on any of our fighting tron, must seem petty that people b. home are grouching about s -comparatively minor things as tioning of coffee, sugar, Eaw;. tires, etc. In comparison t0 ''. privations they endure while tag their lives, these civilian . rifices (?) must seem very into in-to them. AND THEY ARE. However, inasmuch as our ban are fighting to depose the fci' tor aggressors, they would be first to decry the setting up of j ilar bureaucratic rules and refi Hume wune uieir are turned. 'Tis true, our civilian army not kept pace with our flghaj army. There has been much ling among the home folks. Bu: ii our humble opinion, a great fa; of this can be attributed to thi fact that government has a taken the trouble to enlighten fe public as to the real reasons fe many of the rationings, rules i:j regulations. In other words, fe is suspicion In the minds ol mat that the bureaucrats are impose some of the restrictions renarfe of actual necessities. The America people resent having things pit ned for them by a paternaiiri government it resembles too close-ly close-ly the pattern of the Axis pwtn A great deal more can be accoa-plished accoa-plished with them by appeal; to their voluntary spirit ot om? eration. WHAT THEY REQUlPi IS INTELLIGENT LEADERS1C NOT REGIMENTED C01t7J SION. Another thing which makes average American see "red" is t "red tape" foisted upon him try t; various rules, orders and refii tions, promulgated by the or?-staffed or?-staffed and all too numerous p-ernmental p-ernmental agencies. Many ol c. citizens are kept so "darned" b-filling b-filling out a multiplicity of and cooling their heels at ti. agencies, they have little or : time left to devote to the war ' fort. The bureaucrats too have t their utmost to destroy incen:.-'-the thing, that made America p and strong. There has been -J-of theoretical economic pla than of practical effort to at::: plish what the situation itsel.' quires. THIS IS NO TIME -PUTTING HALF-BAKED t-PERIMENTAL t-PERIMENTAL THEORIES E. MOTION. Let's hope and pray this sion of Congress will promp:.; ? about correcting this bungloi the part of government. We r, gest that after the tows-which tows-which opens each day's sesES Congress, the next pro&A' the reading of what Thorny-ferson Thorny-ferson said: "Were we d-'-from Washington when to"; when to reap, we shou.i want bread." , , The aforegoing should construed as lacking to Ration Ra-tion and gratitude to the women in our armed us they are "the tops". I'-b er an attempt to cap::-"Rick's cap::-"Rick's report to the t , how we can accelerate effort on the "homejront |