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Show GLOIJAL AIR TRANSPORT The United States has always been a nation of movement move-ment transportation. In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, American sailing ships made historic records. Later came our development of the slipper sailing ships, the steamship, and the steam locomotives and the railroad train; then came the automobile. The first World War saw the practical application of the next great means of transportation aviation. Its progress pro-gress has outdone a tale by Ilortio Alger. When the second World War broke, three factors were predominant production, transportation and speed. Failure Fail-ure of either meant failure for all. Our airplanes stepped in with speed before undreamed of. Thy spanned continents contin-ents and oceans in hours. Each war, from the day of the Revolution, has promoted promot-ed transportation and speed. After the present war, the story can be told of the advancements in our air arm of transportation which will help America hold her rightful place in global air transport. American air lines are already planning to invest hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars in the newest type of equipment equip-ment for service at home and abroad, thus providing work and opportunities for tens of thousands of fighting men when they come home. PATRIOTIC OBLIGATION A New England food marketing publication asserts that: "The most significant fact of 1943 in respect to food is that, in spite of war created dislocations, more severe and complex than any since the Plymouth Colony went through its first winter, American civilians are the best fed people on earth. "For this great blessing, it is not unbecoming to suggest sug-gest that the patriotic obligation on the home front is to look back with a measure of thankfulness, and forward to the new year with courage and continuing belief in the effectiveness of the nation's food producing and food distributing1 dis-tributing1 resources, from farm to cupboard." It has often been said that the purpose of rationing is to afford everyone a fair share of necessities. That is true, but unless the goods are on hand at the time and place called for by ration coupon holders, the entire rationing system is threatened with imminent collapse. So far, the distribution system has succeeded in keeping the foundation founda-tion under the rationing system. Food, clothing and thousands thous-ands of other necessities vital to daily living, have been on the store shelves when consumers called for them. Merchants Mer-chants throughout the country have helped to make this possible. They have made rationing work. Thanks to them, the public can "look' . . . forward to the new year with . . . belief in the effectiveness of the nation's . . . distributing distri-buting resources." GET THE WAR OVER! Are you tired of the war? So is General Montgomery. Are you fed up with it? So is he. If there is anything the home front wants to say about ending the war quickly, the men on the fighting fronts can double it. When General Montgomery told his men, "This war began a long time ago, I am getting fed up with the thing, I think it is nearly time we finished it," every soldier sol-dier who heard him knew what the answer to that statement state-ment must be. The civilian knows what the answer is, too. It is simply to do more than he has been doing to bring the war to a victorious end. Yes, one could buy another war bond, or one might follow the example of President and Mrs. Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines, who have w invested all their personal savings in war bonds. Can' it be the Quezons are tired of the war too ? All we know is that they are joining General Montgomery and his men in active determination to get it over as soon as possible. Christian Science Monitor. |