The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-31
ANOTHER YEAR

ANOTHER YEAR
The year now beginning should be Happy New
Yeor It will bring grief to many hordships to more.
irritotons to o But unless all signs fail it will leod
the peoce-Ioving peoples of the world within sight Of
an end to the inferno into which few sodistc egon'
onoes have plunged US.
During this year we shall have to sacrifice every
thino from money to lives on scale never before
ceived We shall not however, make those sacrifices
as we did the lesser ones Of lo42wonderng in spite
Of ourselves whether they might just possibly prove to
be in vain.
We can visualize in general way the road that
leeds back to peoce Our enemies are on the defens
i've They can stand off for long time perhaps,
but no war ever won by defensive that was more
than temporary and the almost infintesnol odvon-
oee that possess is certain to grow, that on
the orond scale we shall retain the offensive from now
on.
Our industry has struck it's stride. We aren't yet
satisfied We must never be satisfied until we have
won. Yet both in quantity and in quality so far
surposs enemies that they have no chance
We have stopped the unsatisfactory copying Of
Others weapons and toctics We are proving the
periorty Of American technical methods by evolving
our own weapons, which proving devastating to
the Germans as their btzkreg weapons once did to
the denocroces Of Europe.
The Jops are relatively sofe, for short time. The
war is yet far from their home Shores That, also, is
temporary Before the yeor-end Nippon also will
feel the weight Of our wrath.
Sold Undersecretory Of War Patterson recently:
This much can be said with assurance. The year
lo43 will be fighting year for American troops We
will be fighting in Europe and Asio and Africa and on
the seven seos
I'VE will seek out the enemy wherever can
find him-not on front on two fronts but on
any front where Nozis and japanese can be engaged
. in combat"
Thot is the vital and encouraging difference be-
tween 1913 and the year past.
In l943 we shall seek out our enemies, wherever
they ore and strike them with mighty concentrations
Of deadly weapons, instead Of sitting back we're
forced to do so much during 1912 and wondering whe
ther or where the enemy would strike US before we
could become strong enough to stop him.
1.-THE year lo43 will be tough year." sold Mr..
Peterson ut will likely be year Of heavy oosuol-
ties 1t takes loss Of life and loss Of blood to attack,
to press the war home to the enemy, to win monoen-
tous bottles"
Indeed it does But it is far eoser to foce death,
for ones self his loved ones when deoth is contrib
utino directly 10 progress thon Wnen-os on ooroon,
in the Eost Indies and elsewhere during l942-the
utmost possible to slow down victorious enenys
odvonce.
Yes, with all its sorrows and its heortbreoks lo43
should be Happy New Year for everybody who be-
Iieves in human freedom year that should get hop
pier and hopper as it goes on
WORTH CHECKING
Senator Byrd Of Virginia, who is trying to promote
economy in nonwor services, soys thot in World War
M we hod four civilian government employees for every
k)6 members Of the armed services In this war; he
E1n we have four civilians for every members
she orned forces.
Whon the first World War ended there we're 80
pNernmentol o9eneies. as controsted with 81 now
SIKH summarized disclosures could be somewhat
TX - ths administration Of this war and yet re-
6 Sonnline ond olorming. One outlet for renew
60orossionoI vioor otter the New Year might be