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OUR null MIGHT lIGHT Twenty five years ago ago In in World war L No Wo o. o I 1 Myrtle Ef El Elting ting then a I lar i r young matron of our community now flOW a resident of Glendale California Contributed the following song-poem song to to TOe The Record which Record which we think is even more lore appropriate now than it was years ago I five ty-five I When the war wr cry cry s sounded over the land I And nd An th the flags were raised on high And nd we knew our country needed men menTo menTo menTo To go and fight and die We were ready to answer the roll call For wo we love our dear old flag lag And well we'll always keep it waving Not ot one of us will wUl lag Chorus Were We're ready to fight with all our might No lo matter In what kind of manner For or weve we've always been taught And nd weve we've never forgot To 0 honor the Star Spangled Banner Danner For she's waved over us And ADd we know we must 00 Oo in and win the day So were we're ready to fight With all our might For Tot the dear old U. 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A When en we were children at mothers mother's knee And all through childhood years Whenever we saw Old Glory And heard those shouts and cheers We said ald when our country calls us Well We'll eu go with hearts so true I For por love hove of home and liberty S And nd the Red White and d Blue HOLY WEEK MEEK v y I STARTING SI WITH Palm Sunday and L 1 I v through Easter Sunday this world goes i through trough the most solemn week of our I It is Christian year rightly called Holy i Week and men do well to take time to toj j be holy and reverent In thought by pausing pausing paus paus- I ing lag to remember the supreme sacrifice of f all times all nations a and nd all peoples We should prepare through that Holy Week to accept the glory and re re- re which Easter Sunday promises I today Just as It did 19 centuries ago Wo We are surely frustrated and fearful and In such turmoil we could take this thi week to prepare to wipe from our hearts I the unrest and despair making it open oper L I and free of personal agitation to receive C I Ithe the Easter message Here hero in our home hoim C city we should remind ourselves that the thc C human race has not become extinct anc and I CI I Il l That lost nor has it completely destroyed it it- it self Past Fast Holy Weeks have proven that tha itI I thaI it U purges itself and is Is' Is redeemed redeemed again agail I and sad again I HOME FIRES SiNCE SINCE AMERICA AMERIC was waa bombed into th the e S I war on December weve we've seen some Born e a tough lough going for our side Weve We've had ti to 0 I take bad news as best we could and I it t I I hasn't been easy Hunched over our pa pa- pa paI I I pets peas bending close to our radios weve we've 6 a j ill all passed through some dismal moments moment 8 S I of anger and despair says the Industrial Industria 1 Press Service Before Detore this war is ended well we'll pass pas 5 through many more Even though ou our 1 factories are speeding up their production Ii of war materials we wont won't have enough t to take the offensive on a big scale seale fo for r many a long month to come Were We're going goin fog S g Ito i to have to work harder than we eve ever r i i have before Were We're going to have to fac face 0 I ugly facts with courage shut our eyes eye 8 and ears to defeat dig in and do our ou ir Jobs jabs better than ever That's the oni only F way Yay we can win I Our war industries are trying in man many y tays ys to deliver the goods as fast a as yS S In addition to all their other othe ir r jobs Jabs they're trying to keep up the morale moral e I of their employees for during the Jar last rt I sat w I when morale sagged production air also 50 I dropped To keep that from happening S 'S g this time some plants are serving hr be- be r- r I meals tween-meals snacks to offset fatigue 10 LB j I caused by longer hours Others are sur supplying sup sup- plying free town home-town newspapers I to to o counteract homesickness In workers who wl to are away from home Pep rallies special al recognition for working hard employees em em- 1 they're they're trying not to overlook nc a single thing that will Increase tio tion Keeping up morale Is a Job that all of Dl ofus o us ua can do howe however r. r Its It's bound to 1 be e tough giving up many of or our easy comforts com con comI i- i I forts changing our lives under the conI in Impact Impact Im Im- n- n pact of war But Dut we can con do it cheerfully cheerfull 1 and SOd we must For back bock here behind U the tie is lines weve we've got to keep those home fir fires Ues es burning turning Weve We've got to accept what we ye must and keep going Indeed that's U the he ie very least that hat we can do f v r I ILi i THIS Thus WAR has produced three military mili mu Li- Li tary leaders of the tho first rank rank General General ral a MacArthur of the United States Marshal Marsh ial al of the Soviet Union 51 and nd rid Generalissimo Chiang Kal Kni Chek of Chir China a a. a Bays ays the Industrial News Review T The 1 he 8 last at has a particular distinction in that th theli he ho is head of his government as W Was well ell eli as Its active commander In military af- af fairs it is significant that all of these commanders believe in the offensive and Pursue the offensive MacArthur of course Is c carrying on what Is essentially essentially 6 ally y a defensive action but action but he ho continually ally aUy takes the battle to the enemy Tim Tim- TimI has lisa won Immense victories Which have cost the Germans millions of men by use of the most daring of offensive of- of tactics tactic And Chiang Kal Kai Chek for forve five ve years has flung his superbly brave equipped Ill armies against the Jap and kept him jj out of the heart of China It 1 Is zO for tor that reason that recent changes In the commands of the United States Army an and ang Navy should encourage the country Sh Some super conservatives have been eased out And younger aggressive men Zuen are coming in 11 to top op positions s p 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I TE I TI BAYS TI TIlE THE El Paso Post Herald of March The nation needs needs' to awaken to the fUll U gravity of the peril that confronts confront i us 15 I It needs to appreciate how badly we WO weave ave been defeated In three months of war Var It needs to understand that It is possible pos pos- ible sible for the United Nations and the tile Ul united t states to lose this war and suffer th the tho sate late of France France and and that this possibility pos pos- may become a a. probability If the r Continued on p. p rag Pour Four Dads Dad's Column i Continued f from or m Page One I present tide docs does not change It needs to realize that there is III grave chance of the Japanese pushing through India and the tho Germans driving through the Near East to Join their armies and resources In an almost un unbeatable eatable com corn i i i It n needs needa eds to get away once and for all tram from the comforting feeling that while we may lose loso at the start we are bound to win in the end 1 I Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its ut ut- ut most Pray God Gad that awareness will not come too late as It did in France Francel I Production Director Donald Nelson appeals for vastly increased Industrial output on a II hour 24 seven-day seven basis basis basis- hours a II week Maximum production In short I ICan Can we get it I Not on the present basis not basis not under the psychology of recent years Not until we quit thinking In fn terms of less leas work for more money INot I INot INot Not while there is greater concern about overtime pay than overtime production pro pro- INot I INot INot Not while farmer politicians are more Interested In higher prices than raising more essentials I INot I Not while government bureaus bureau bureaus creat creat reat- created ed to meet a n depression emergency that thatis is fa ended ended continue continue trying to grab for I themselves money needed for arma arma- arms I ments meats I Not white an army of ot federal press agents clamors to promote and perpetuate perpetu perpetu- ate Me activities that have no present need or or value Not while congressmen try to put over I useless canals and river schemes and take take- up the time tune of ot defense officials clamoring for factories and contracts as if It war were a great gravy train Not while despite a shortage of labor seeks to carry on projects which It doesn't have the men to perform or orthe the need for tor performing Not while oce and NYA NA stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be in the armed forces or orthe orthe ortho the tho war plants Not while strikes hamper war production production production tion despite a solemn promise that they would stop atop Not while the death and need for uninterrupted production Is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop Not while double time la Is demanded for Sunday work which Is only part of ot a 40 hour week i iNot I Ion Not while a man cant can't be employed on an Army project or In a II war plant until he pays 20 to 50 or more to a labor racketeer I Not while criminal gangs control employment employment employment em em- and allocation of men to work on tho the Normandie and the other ships along New Yorks York's vast waterfront Not while Fifth Columnists are pampered pampered pampered pamp pamp- ered and enemy aliens move freely In in defense areas Not while gossips spread lies Ues and the timorous are afraid to speak out for their country Not while the grim Job of preparing our home communities against air raids and sabotage is gummed up with a lot i of boondoggling social service activity Not while pressure blocs bloc clamor for bigger benefits bounties and pensions We will not get maximum production in short unless first we fully tully realize reaUze our awful peril and second get over the of recent years Shorter horter hours higher wages bigger profits more overtime less work gimmle more pensions greater crop be benefits benefits be- be more appropriations and andI 1 I patronage plants for my congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional district fees and dues to work for tor Uncle Sam hamn eggs wealth the 30 every Thursday I France had the too too had had them till the Germans were close to Paris Then everybody went frantically to work work too too late t 1 France Franco has half no today today except except gimmle food for my baby a tl place to lay my head death Will the United sta States es wake up too 00 toolate toolate late o o TIlE THE STARS of ot the Southern Cross and the tho stripes of Old Glory with MacAr MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur Ar hur In command do not look good to the Jap To America however this t its lis a bright omen of ot a turning point Inthe in inthe inthe the war of ot the South Pacific Pacific Pacific-It it good to us Los Los Angeles Examiner I o OO oar o TO JAPANS JAPAN'S PLANS for tor conquest have I been In preparation for twenty years on a scale far bolder than any campaign conceived by Nazi Germany The current current current cur cur- rent Japanese victories in the Pacific are not accidental successes but the results reI re re- re- re I suits sule of carefully plotted strategy and detailed war games Mark J Js J. veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran Far Eastern correspondent reveals in an article in the April issue of The Readers Reader's Digest The island of Hainan Halnan off oft the South China coast was seized by the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese In 1939 as a base and drilling ground for tor troops especially trained for forI foran foran an assault on Malaya In the greatest I secrecy the Chinese Chin Chinese ese see Intelligence service the best beet in tho world Japan filled the island uland jungle with handpicked soldiers and top generals gener genera als ale who put to severe tests the tactics which have since succeeded amazingly against the British The myth of the I Japanese soldiers soldier's lack Of ot initiative was I shattered to bits according to Mr during these tests of ot hard Jungle fightIng fighting fighting fight fight- ing and individual responsibility It was these same samo infiltration troops that broke up up the defenses of Malaya and Burma I One man tanks developed and proved i In Hainan crossed the rice fields of Malaya and overpowered the British lines UneS The trained Hainan-trained Japanese air force equipped with inferior Interior planes pierces but skilled pilots and outnumbering the I defenders operated in perfect precision I with land forces I Mr further reveals that the I Philippine Invaders were trained for two 1 years on the Island of Formosa FormO Landing operations under identical II with those of th the actual Inv invasion slon were rehearsed r thoroughly by land air and andI naval forces Surprise weapons ranging I from tanks with V fronts V-fronts for deflecting direct hits to the smokeless powder of snipers were devised ed in these m maneuvers land and later used with disastrous effect against the defenders of the Philippines I Petty Potty tricks accounting for tor much of the I Japanese success Included the Introduction introduction introduction intro Intro- of the swimming mine exploders ers erg barges camouflaged as Innocent fishIng fishing fishing fish fish- ing craft and fake take surrender sl signals nals All these dress rehearsals were supplemented supplemented supplemented supple supple- by the most vicious and long- long ranged fifth filth column activities that this war war has yet seen Japanese fishermen long known to the Philippine and Hawaiian Hawaiian Hawa Hawa- iian lIan waterfronts greeted the invaders in naval uniforms Inland operators re- re the location of air defense sites The puppet rulers of the Philippines and Malaya were established as tradesmen trades- trades I Imen men and shopkeepers years before the outbreak of ot hostilities I Emphasizing that the Japanese conquest conquest conquest con con- quest has been based on incredibly complete complete complete com com- preparations Mr warns gravely against the idea Ideo that Japan can be easily defeated Japan can win he says If It we allow overconfidence to make us slow low and unwilling to make sacrifices or take tako risks |