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Show Cu: P.c?iy To la? Cruelty j Official revelation of the tor-1 ture of American and Filipino seller; iy the Japanese merely coi.la-ms w hat most of us have suspected all along. There is shock, nevertheless, because occasionally, inthe past, intimations of a more humane ort came to us out of the welter of blood in the Far East. It is too early to conclude that all prisoners have been tortured and there is hope that many have received reasonable treatment. Until facts appear, let this hope remain. The Japanese set the world an example of horror at Nanking and revealed their hatred of the white race at Hong Kong. Nothing Noth-ing should surprise us in the future fu-ture unless, here and there, some Japanese army official exhibits some of the virtues of civilization. civiliza-tion. There is nothing to be gained by becoming enraged in an emotional emo-tional manner. What we need is the cold, white anger of an avenging nation, setting itself calculatingly to the task of inflicting in-flicting proper punishment upon up-on a barbarous enemy. No American can avenge these tortured soldiers by applying vocal epithets to the Mikado or threatening Tokyo with verbal bombings. In due course the figthing men of this country wjll take proper action, which we may leave to them and their commanding officers. We of the home front can resolutely reso-lutely support our military and naval leaders. We can, and should prevent pious pacifists and peace fanatics from staying the strong right arm of justice when it swings threateningly over the heads of Japanese brutes. There is no sense in a blind demand ior vengeance out tnere is wisdom in insisting that the Japanese be taught, once and for all, that the torture of helpless prisoners does not pay. In fact, the treacherous Orientals, as a people and as a nation, must be shown that making war upon the United States does not pay. In the application of this lesson les-son it is inevitable that millions of Japanese will suffer. Many will die. There is no other way to prevent another sneaking attack at-tack and to convince the sons of heaven that drawing the bloody sword is not exclusively a Japanese Japa-nese art. We sincerely regret the Japanese Japa-nese appeal to war and their a-doption a-doption of brutality as a policy. We contemplate, without enthusiasm, enthus-iasm, the day of reckoning when outraged civilization demands and obtains the execution of a just and righteous judgment. Americans, on the home front, can leave this to men in service. It is for us to uphold their fighting fight-ing arm, defend them from the assualts of crack-pot sentimentalists sentimen-talists and support our , govern-. ?TTTrWne prosecution of the war. . It will help ifWg-4iuWar Bonds. Show your anger, if you must, by buying today. This will mean arms and munitions tomorrow, which even Tokyo can understand and fear. |