Milford chronicle., 1942-11-27

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The mortar fires its projectile in
a U-shaped arc and for this reason
may be successfully camoufiaged
behind an obstruction. 1t costs about
$500. You and your neighbors, join
ing together, can buy many Of these
effective weapons for use of our
army. Investing at least ten per-
cent of your income in War Bonds
every payday will do the job. Get
on the firing line on the home front
join the "Ten Percent Club"
U. S. Treasury Department
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While the news from all fronts
is encouraging-the news from the
Russian front is more than en-
couraging. There the mighty army
of the United States of Soviet
Russia is on the offensive along
the entire 1000 miles of front. In
the vicinity of Stalingrad, the
Russians are dealing the Nazis a
series of terrible blows. In some
sections the roads are piled high
with wrecked German war ma
chimes, while Nazi dead litter the
fields for miles around. Although
they admit but little of the SER
iousness of the battle in Russia,
the Reich propaganda bureau has
been forced to admit that the
Reds" have gone on the often
sive, but they sweeten this bitter
pill for the German public's con-
sumption by saying that whatever
gains the Russians make are made
at a terrible cost in men and ma
terial. All of this, however, does
not change the fact that $4,000
more German youths have been
offered as a sacrifice to Hitler and
the Nazi party. What a host of
terrible things these wretches
must answer Wholesale cor
ruption of youth, destruction of
property, murder, rape, arson,
mayhem, etc. How they must be
shaking in their boots every time
another Russian success is re-
ported; how they must quake when
they see in every dream, thou
sands of Russians pouring into
their countryside, intent on evening
the score for ROstov and Stalin-
grad. The Bible which they out
lawed, can tell them their ultimate
fate-Mein Kampf can't; it only
deluded them into thinking that
they were a superior race, nation
of warriors, the legal heirs of Thor
and Wotan. Well, heirs of pagan
Gods, the Russians, are coming in
the East; the English and Ameri-
cans are coming in the West; the
Czechs are coming from tn e
Greeks, and the Fighting French
are coming, and the people from
the low countries are coming
they are all going to help the Rus
SLAMS drive you into the earth.
Your leader states in the book
which you have accepted as your
bible, that faced with defeat, he
will pull the pillars that support
the temple on down with him. We
don't doubt for a moment that evil,
cowardly Schicklegruber would
like to do that, but he can't. He is
only going to pull Germany down
with him. For those who live by
the sword must die by the sword.
This is the word of God, which has
always come true.
/s/s/
In the South Pacific, our forces
are slowly but steadily forcing the
Japs out of positions which the
little yellow monkeys from Nippon
thought they could hold forever.
They, like the Germans, thought
the Allies had gone soft; another
great delusion. How tough it must
be for these naughty Island war
riors to find that American, Eng
lish and Australian boys. who never
thought about war until a few
years ago, are better fighters, bet
ter planners and better winners.
R/s/
There is one thing that everyone
has in common during these days
besides a do-or-die desire to win
the war-and that is a bad case of
bewilderment. We are bewildered
because it is impossible to see our
way in the light of precedent. Not
so long ago a $3,000.OOO,OOO Fed
eral deficit was staggering. Today
the banks of this country are help
ing the government to underwrite
deficits running into scores of bill
lions. There is no alternative. But
while the banks and the govern
ment talk in hundreds of billions
marrow, we can take comfort in
one fact. The banking industry is
still owned and operated by pri-
vate citizens. AS long as it re-
mains so. financial credit will like
wise remain in the hands of the
private citizen. The farmer can
still go to his community bank for
crop loans or loans to purchase
new machinery, or livestock; SER
vices that in the present agricul-
tural crisis are as vital as the
launching of a new battleship.
Even food has to be financed. And
workers. soldiers dependents. bus
mess men, all of us, can still find
in the banker a private citizen
deeply interested in the problems
of other private citizens. In the
process of fighting the war we
must not lose private banking. 1t
is one of the strongest bulwarks of
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