The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-20

"Ine question s, whose ar power, That question Is almost decided, In Q few months, perhaps even weeks it will bo decided"
 Before 1t Is too late, he sAld, Amer. lea must make up It's mind Co matof the war effort, sacrifice by sacrifice of Britain and Germany, we art beHtenn," he warned, "and every thing we stand for and hope for E beaten" he warned, land every with our present half-hearted attl- tudos and policies, It ls clear tha' without sacrifice we arc lost, The time Is not somewhere In the future, It is now. The war Is going badly, We must bo In it, or get out of it, We must rule or be ruled, There Is no alternative"
 Mir. Flanders, who is alss president of Jones & Lamson Machine co. Springfield, Vermont, expressed par- tleular concern At tho governments failure to utilize all available ma chino tools for immediate aircraft production,
 Relieve 1t or not" he told the meeting, lat . time when even days are precious, Q large part of tho new aircraft program will walt until new machine tools are built to equip new factories to build moro machine tools to build airplane engines. And thls occurs In Q nation whose monde. fense industries are aN eluttered up with the needed tools and In . no. ton whose chief executive has pro- claimed Q state of unlimited emergency
 we cannot wait for new-bullt factories and shiny new machinery. We must run all existing defense machinery clear around the clock, seven days Q week, Nor is 1t merely defense machinery which must be op. erated. Equipment engaged In non- defense work, which can be shifted to produce arms and armament, air. planes and ships, must in part he run at the same full week of night and day operation, 30 as to release tho remainder for the purposes of our offonSe,
 "A beginning has boon mado by suhcontraotlng It Is only Q begin. hing. Ways must be found to as. semble these machines by tho hun. dreds In existing buildings, There Is no time to walt"
 We must forget business aS us- uai," tho speaker said, land lot of other haif-way slogans, Of course, we arc going to aid Britain, If wo are wise, We will ald her with a sud- donness and Q mightlness which will make the issue of her conflict suo- cossful beyond doubt. But we must sec tho task as something larger than putting out our neighbours fire, aS tho president once pictured it. Tho world Is on fire, and flames are 1t here and there in our own land"
 Unless Hitler is to triumph per- manently, he continued, his air army must be defeated now, because "thcre Is this about air power, that once attained, 1t ls by any human means unconquerable."
 "Ships travel slowly. Armies more slowly still. For bombing plan, . thousand miles is . journey betwlxt a late breakfast and an early lunch, Napoleon was tedlously marching and countermarching across tho weary leagues of little Western Europe in his task of wiping out ono instruction after another. There will Do no insurrections under domi- nant air power. A whisper of dis- content and tho populous city hous. ing the discontented is blown to bits, There may Do chaos, but thore VIII Do no effective revolt.
 We should demand" MT. Flanders concluded, "that the government give us more and greater tasks to do, We should bring to light It's present follies and incapaclties, We should bring to bear upon our president the full measure of our comprehension never again demand of us half. and determination, SO that he shall measure of accomplishment. Tho people must iead; and wc os New England can lead the people"