| Show L. L r Mt Dads Dad's i Column j 3 r iio I MUCH 1 II HIS HAS fW BOMBING r mr m w ww w w f I GERMANY THE FATE of Germany hangs on an the tho text next hundred days fays according to an an in the January Readers Reader's Digest t. t I Allan dilan A. A Michie recently returned from England says Bays the Reich nelch already is 1 shaky in morale lie He adds that if It we I triple then quadruple our bomber striking i t ing force In the next three months I Germany will be for forced ed to her knees and I the combined British and American armies jinnies will have the upper hand when they move in I I 1 The me Digest article says Nazi Ambassador Ambassador Ambas Ambas- Franz von returning recently recently recently re- re I I from Germany t to his post In in Turkey gloomily confessed ed to a neutral diplomat The situation in the Rhineland Rhineland Rhine Rhine- I land IS III appalling People are beginning I Ito i to ask for peace at any price Unless something can be done to stop these R RAF A F raids this winter the situation will become dangerous for the Nazi I party Michie says there Is no doubt that Germany has been badly hurt The R A AP AP Ap p has destroyed homes and made hundreds of thousands of others uninhabitable uninhabitable habitable in a country that had an acute housing shortage even before the war MichIe declares that since the R A AP A. A p f began its big raids the Nazis have I bad had to devote more than 50 per cent of I their productive capacity to civilian I needs and divert persons to air I defense services Some German factories lave Dave had to halt war production to take emergency orders for furniture for the homeless He The Digest article adds that those who I how trow what air bombardment can do do with planes carrying two two- and ton four-ton bombs realize that we stand on the very doorstep of victory The tragedy it saysa says I a h that we do not yet have havethe the bomber strength in England to knock down the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of Nazi resistance The motor four ed bombers from American and British assembly lines have been diverted to other com commands ands With eight of the Reich's key industrial cities already worse than useless to Hitler's war machine machine machine ma ma- chine Michie says we must go promptly after the rest with a thousand-plane thousand raid at least once a week week and and that all the factors standing in the way can be removed almost at once by a a decision of I Ithe the Anglo-American Anglo high command The next hundred days are indicated as the key ones once The Digest article says there isn't a week to lose The Nazis still are behind the British in perfection of ot radio-location radio devices for detecting night bombers but are catching up fast fact In six months they may be able to bring down so 60 many attacking planes that our raids would be too c costly to continue But the article adds if It we strike in the next three months we can truly make the situation dangerous for the Nazi party TilE THE AYE AXE IS THE TIIE I A Meditation for the New Year YearBy YearBy YearBy By RUTH TAYLOR THE TIIE AXE is the path into the forest for- for est When the first intrepid voyagers I braved the unknown seas to seek a ai i refuge on our shores they found here 1 virgin wilderness There were no paths I but those created by the wild beasts and still wilder savages With their axes they lit hewed ed out homes built their villages I sad erected their stockades With their lues lies they hewed a a. pathway into the theto I to forest rest felled trees for bridges across turbulent waters penetrating deeper and I deeper into the woods until they crossed creased cross cross- I ed the mountains and reached the plains I With their axes they split the timber for forthe forthe i the wagons that freighted them to other forests These they conquered in like j manner until at came to where i the waters of the blue Pacific lapped the I western shore The axe is the path into the forest The free man must ever forge ahead into the unknown The axe is the symbol i ot of f his own strength of his ability to toI I Utilize his own talents to carve out his bis I own path into a new world The path he hews others will follow to go on where I he leaves off oft His is 15 the responsibility tomake to tomake tomake make his part of the path run true and I smooth that those who follow after may ay speed to their own task I The axe is the path into the forest I We are In the forest of war Only as ase We e wield our own axe lustily and Wisely J will we find the path out Only as we Work as did those earlier pioneers from I dawn until sunset will we carve our I Pathway to the mountain peaks from j which we can see the plains of peace be- be Yond Only as we lop of off the nonessential non non-essen- branches cut down the poison polson j growth of hates suspicions and preJudIce prejudice dIce level the trees that hide our vision I ot of a free world can we be worthy foli followers followers fol- fol i lowers of those who made this country ot Of ours As they who preceded us us wieldIng wield wield- tog Ing their axes built a nation of the tree free so can we wielding our axes axell build 1 II a Free World The power is in us We I need but the will to act I The axe now as always Is the path Into nto the forest o o o I TilE THE RUSSIANS HESSIANS nEi REFUSE US USI I To 71 O GAMBLE O I SAYS BAYS THE TIIE Christian Science Monitor I The The amazing Russians I are at it again Their latest offensive offensive now now fl e days old ha hw not only netted them villages vil- vil lages and towns impressive quantities 1 of t all sorts of supplies but has cut the thet Moscow railway thus depriving t the e Nazis of one of their more Important important tant communIcation lines This main mainI drive I hi be descrIbed as BS a blitz bUtz appears to the e central one of three a second being Ith Ing In ln progress only ninety miles from fromi a Latvian bor border ler according to Nazi J i ons and nd da a third ninety ninety miles mUes southwest of Stall Stalingrad grad The performance of ot the Russians la is heartening to all their alUes allies The Tho Soviet troops to oops are fighting lIk like Ilka men who mean make the most ot of r the opportunity oPened p up by the United Nations N Moris sue suc- Ito ceases to In Africa They are not not content Stun rest rn In the u hope Pe tn that Hitler will win even even- B he 8 can ny find he has bitten off olf more than chew fco c la In our admiration for tor our Russian ItaM Wea w wo nation nay forget what terrific W. W their nation has half already endured may forget that battles battle are not won Continued on rage rag ai Fo roar lr Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page Pago One without losses louses and that the reported Nazi casualties are not the only ones being suffered along the Russian front We may tall fall to realize that one reason tho the Russians Huss fight as they do Is 18 not that they have found their enemy weak but that they know how strong he Is Ia and that to count on others to beat him Id lg ISto to offer him maximum opportunity to regain striking power It would be easy eal for tor the Russians to assume that while whUa United Nations' Nations power Is mounting time Is 18 on their side But Dut they apparently know that time Is on the side Bide that fights tights to keep It there o o o FORTY ODD SAYS AN editorial writer It was no not no noso so BO long ago that there echoed the Sorry but we are not using men over forty though the applicant had been well educated educated educated edu edu- was personable and not much past the forty mark Yes Yea It W was wag 8 and stUl still Is perhaps felt by some employers that a aman aman aman f man over forty Is slowing Blowing down that he will not adapt himself so readily learn tangled new tactics as quickly and not take orders so BO willingly as all the younger men The dire need of ot more men In all I fields has perhaps helped to dispel this Illusion to a great extent but we should not need a war to teach us that often otten a aman aman i iman man Is Just beginning to find himself by forty Ills IUs possibilities are developed I as he has aged Notice the Judgment exercised by a man of ot forty five and one of ot twenty You may be an old man manIn manIn manIn I In the field of ot baseball when you are In your late thirties but usually other positions find you better equipped 1 through time with added wisdom and Increased experience Later years find the tho Individual more resourceful and more moro apt to stand strain because of ot a factor known as patience Youths Youth's hands handA may bo be stronger but that does not mean they are wiser Youth must await Its turn and age must not be put Into the discard because It Is no longer fresh I There are many names put before us In this International picture right n now W names that speak of force and Intelligence Intelligence Intelli Intelli- gence gence- and In this list you find many are your so-called so older men Few Pew who do not see why Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes on his eightieth birthday felt there is III always more to learn I He e put It It I this way at at seventy you have much I to learn I I. I at eighty find new vistas opening around me in every direction Nature may waste much but butan an intelligent Intelligent Intelli intelli- gent man will not let a boundary line of ot age keep him from developing 0 00 0 Q t FOR TOR A t BETTER RETTER YEAR It WE DO well at the beginning of ot this year to reflect upon our spiritual outlook outlook out out- look for the months ahead We should take stock of ourselves t We can find solace In the fact tact that all trouble e Is- Is eased through prayer and In earnest earnestI communion as to the required strength I of ot mind necessary to carry on for tor a better future It Is befitting to recall recal the lines spoken by George VI In one ol ot othis his Christmas Day broadcasts several years ago I said laid to a man who stood at the gate of ot the year Give me a light that I may tread safely Into the un un- known And ho he replied Go Co Into the darkness and put your hand Into the hand band of ot God Cod That shall be to you beter better bet bet- ter fer er than a light and safer sater than a known way And may this brighten our days to come with Its reflected trust and Its Us key to a safer later Journey for tor 43 43 OF TilE THE WEEK WEE TIlE THE WELLESLEY Massachusetts Salvage Salvage Salvage Sal Sal- vage Committee is stimulating scrap collections collections collections col col- with witha a check off return post postcard postcard postcard card using the government franking privilege permission for tor the use of ot which may nay be obtained by any salvage com com- The Idea Is 18 one which many local ocal committees might put Into practice tice The card la is sent to all homes and stores advising that Junk Junk any more Its It's an essential war material that your country needs desperately Wont Won't you search your house garage shop for every bit of heavy Iron and steel that you can spare to give our boys the fighting tools they must have to win On the return half halt of ot the card which Is 18 addressed to the chairman of ot the salvage salvage salvage sal sal- vage committee there la is a list which Includes such Items as boilers castings pianos coal stoves golf golt clubs Iron fences lawn mowers and ash cans and a space apace where the citizen can check those articles which he wishes to contribute to the war effort There Is 18 also a space apace to Indicate when the material can be picked up The response has been good The off check-off plan and no postage cost did the trick O O O OA A WISTFUL undertaker In Detroit turned an aluminum coffin over to the scrap salvage drive with the hope that Hitler might be burled buried in It Told that It would be converted Into materials for tor warring on the fuehrer he said I hope then It can at least speed his funeral O O O S SAYS BAY A Y S B THE TIIE Denver Mining Record Mining men of ot the west believe that gold and silver will shame the New Deal after the war and that the nation will wUl then realize how brainless were the bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bu bu- back In 1042 1642 when tb they y cl 35 1 down the great gold mining Industry and rather than acknowledge that It was wrong and cancel the order made an effort elfort to save Its ts face tace by reopening the gold mines by easy easy stages L I I |
