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Show Who's a ! Saboteur? By RUTH TAYLOR There was an advertisement in one of the New York, papers which struck home. It's heading, was Saboteur Who Me V" j That's not a pretty title. The j word "saboteur" is an ugly word. It reeks of slimp plots to destroy and disrupt. It Is a word of j darkness and evil. It is a thing of which we want nothing here j in this country of ours, in these United States that are America. But all saboteurs are not armed with explosives to blow up our plants or to bog down our production. pro-duction. There are unseen saboteurs sabo-teurs in our midst whose aim is disunity and whose weapon is in. tolerance and far too often they make saboteurs of us without our realizing it When we are careless in our speech, when we repeat the facts that should not be known, when we drop the clues that tell of troop movements, of production, of shipments just the chance word from which the enemy, ad. ding carefully thousands of such sentences, can get the facts then we, too, are saboteurs. When we attack groups within our own country, accusing them of lack of patriotism, condenmn-ing condenmn-ing all within a group because of the acts of individuals, thus arousing hatreds that set class against class, group again group then we, too, are saboteurs. When we perform our duties of citizenship guided by our hatreds rather than by our calm and measured, judgment, when we put party before country, and personalities per-sonalities before abilities, when we measure our cooperation by what we may get out of it, then we, too, axe saboteurs. When we allow ourselves to judge our fellow Americans by class or creed or color, and per-ono per-ono jojoo 01 S30ua.wj8.ia puis saoipnfwd lEuosjad vuao mo :iui vision, generalizing instead of individualizing, in-dividualizing, in short, following the Hitler line, we, too, are saboteurs. Sabotage is not an American custom. Let's wipe it our forever, forev-er, by first wiping it out among ourselves. "Saboteur Who Me?" NEVER! |