Show AMERICANS ON OH THE HOME FRONT by carey ward the following essay on the actions to or of some of the people at home during durre 9 this that war time was considered co a sid very good by the school at and asked that it be published in a this issue of the times just late lately ly we have heard board captain to in E eddie d die tell of his frightful s experience port on a life raft erce just it I t week I 1 heard of 0 an american sailor and two dutchmen who were picked up after 93 days on a wooden we oden raft they re living skeletons told thew their story we have ha also Is heard of 1 how the japs are treating our of f how the women a and nd children of our allied nations are carrying on the work of the home front while their men and boys and ours are out there them fighting and sturt sacrificing heing the their or lives so that the world will wine some day be afe fe for democracy then we turn to to our home front where amerie american n workers are ing for higher b wages go grumbling be c cause use of it a Is few sacrifices they are a asked to make what are the american people thinking of of imagine striking for higher wages wag wh when our soldiers for a v wage age of 50 a month ary dicing every minute of the day because of lack of equipment and medical supplies what do you suppose would have happened at pearl harbor wake island mid ay and north ah aft wit ica if the officers and men had quit because became they tg t getting etting all the money they wanted I 1 wonder if the A am arocan people realize that tha t money is not the only thing in life what would have happened to C captain and his companions if one of them had eaten caner all the oranges because he felt they were due him tor for overtime over 1 I wonder if 9 the strikers strike ret realize ho low w many mothers is fathers he re wives ive S and sweethearts have received a telegram reading 1 your so son has been een listed among the men killed in action while in defense of free doni maybe just one bullet one tank or one gun would have saved awed those men how many empty homes here and hearts are there in america today how many mothers are am mourning lor for their sons who have bacel fired their ibex lives on the alter of lib me men whose little sons and daughters ask ash when is daddy mining coming home and have to be told that daddys daddes gone to a greater home where who there them is no war no mi hate only enly love and peace have you strikers in america ey ev er c heard a child call im for daddy on in his sleep and then wake up to find he ie only dreamed that daddy was there them dan dont you strikers have any one you love fighting for our country fighting and giving thew their all a so that their children and get generations after them might have this sacred thing we call freedom 9 freedom it just what does freedom means freedom is what our ancestors came am to america for what the w war between the states was for so that each man regardless of color or creed would be free and equal qa I 1 ged free to I 1 to bay and it think who what I 1 they wanted c toxy d to without being shot for it would 0 u ad you sacrifice trow dice that freedom freed r on for f e r a tev few more dollars and a few less 1 ma working w ork ing hoursh no N t because as lincoln said we are highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under god shall have a new b birth rah of freedom and that g government v orame I 1 e of I 1 the people for the people P by th the e people shall not pettish perish from the earth the 94 9 4 tank was the first to irry carry a device developed dey loped by engineers which is said to improve the accuracy of gunfire by more than per cent according to general campbell the 75 76 mon mm gun can be fired when the tank is in motion enemy tanks regardless of size cannot do this the T e navy uses a new doughnut shaped hh ped rubber buoy bany with a cent lamp mounted on the to guide sea s planes to their berth it is a report i va ed the lamp operates at 45 volts thereby eliminating the insulation diff formerly for meily in a a suit salt water to atmosphere when a potential of volts was used |