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Show COMMUNICATION TIME TO PROTEST Back in July, 1943, Progressive Opinion carried an editorial entitled, "THE BOYS WOULDN'T LIKE IT," written by a man with two sons in the service and two still to go. He said that he would like to say a good deal about the way our great Commander is being defamed and vilified in print and in talk here at home, but, like thousands of others, he did not dare to protest. The time has come now when every American citizen with red blood in his veins should vigorously protest when our Commander in Chief is vilified. Certain1 people have declared it an "open season" on the president of the United States. One of our great congressmen has challenged the president to make the soldier vote a campaign issue. Another has said that the president would contemptuously flip the constitution out of the window as he does the ash from his cigarette. Some columnists, commentators, and some newspapers do a wholesale business in half truths. The Mining and Contracting Con-tracting Review for January 31, 1944, says: "Again . . . resorts to half the truth (we prefer an out-and-out liar) in his handout hand-out of January 10. . . ." And the Review expresses the sentiments senti-ments of every good American on this matter of "HALF TRUTHS." So it's up to us to be on guard. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS." Geo. E. Manwarine. |