The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-30

But up above, the men who are really running the war, don't have time for this sort of thing. They are working night and day. There is little drinking, little relaxation. Out among the lobbyists, the war contractors, the run-of-the-mine Dollar-a-Year men, however, who are flush with the excitement of just coming to Washington, 1t is different. There Is where Sena- tor Lees prohibition amendment might be applied to advantage. KEEPING AHEAD
 OF WASHINGTON
 David BOehm, West Los Angeles .-I like your idea of Community COOperatOrs for Victory. It seems to me that one of the unfortun- at results of the last ten years of increasingly centralized govern ment os that people all over the country have come, more and more, to look toward Washington. see 1t every day in the streams of people jamming this city, most of them patriotic peo- E trying to find ways of help ing win the war faster, and think ing that by coming to Washington they can help do it.
 That is their big mistake.
 What most of them don't re- alize is that the place where we are going to win the war, in the long run, is back home. That's where the production is, and the war bond selling and the real sacrifice. That's where the hope of America is.
 The President came back from his recent trip apparently sur- prised that the country was ahead of Washington. He found out something that has been true for a long time. And I think the country would be even farther ahead if the President went on the radio some day and emphasized in detail what he has already hinted at in talks with friends namely, that it would be a good idea for communities to set up their own organizations and be- come absoluately independent Of Washington.
 A lot of communities already have done this. But others haven't. There are thousands of men and women all over the country, anxious, itching to do anything to help win the war. Representatives of war veterans, service clubs, all sorts of people write to me every day saying that the Government doesn't tell them what they can do.
 Of course they don't realize that the Government is so harassed and deluged that the most help full thing would be for local com munities to go out on their own, and take the initiative. thus trans ferring the burden away from Washington.
 All 1t takes is the same old spirit of our forefathers - the old neigh borly notion of borrowing q pinch Of salt, of turning out for your neighbor's barn-raising, or sharing tools, helping with the harvest.
 As say, a great many e0Hs munities already gre doing tals' But Q lot of them still are lock- Ing to Washington. And you have no idea of the burden which could De taken of this red.tape.-snaFIed. sweating city #, 70 far as possible, we got back to the good ela.fashienea system of doing things back home.
 P. s. It took a newspaper in the heart Of the midwest. the Omaha World Herald, Co really show Washington how { ortin c scrat iron collection campaign.
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