Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18


Our factories are turning out hum
dreds of these bombing ships. Yet
it is only through your investment
in War Bonds and Stamps you can
do your share to help provide pa
troll hombers for our rapidly in
creasing air force. Invest at least
ten percent of your income every
payday in these Government securi-
ties and do your bit to win and short
en- the war. Our airmen are de-
pending on your help.
U. S. Treasury Department
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
the desert fox" has at last been
"outfoxed." The so-called Nazi
military genius, who delighted to
torture his captives by holding
class with himself as the teacher
and show them by means of black
board drawings, the mistakes they
made, the mistakes which always
seemed to win the battle for him
when things looked blackest for his
vaunted Afriga Corps, is being run
to death out of Egypt. Across hun
dreds of miles of waste land the
weary Nazis have retreated, and
every mile is Uttered with German
tanks, armored vehicles and Ger
man dead. Military experts said
Rommel would make a stand at Ell
Agheila and for a few days it
seemed like he would, but came the
British attack, and he forgot all
about standing, sitting or walking.
He started to run and is still on his
way with the spires of Ancient Tri-
poll in sight. Some experts say he
hopes to reach Tunis where he
will join the forces of another Ger
man, Col. General Walther Neh-
ring for a last ditch fight. We hes
itate to make predictions, but this
writer believes that Rommel, Neh-
ring and all the rest of the Nazis
in the Tunis area, are going to be
forced to do a "Dunkirk" back to
Sicily, a Dunkirk, which can mean
only one thing the waterloo" of
German and Italian ambitions and
hopes in North Africa.
"a'e ' /s/e/ '' '
The Japs, who never seem to get
enough fighting, are still trying to
land troops in New Guinea. Bloody
fighting above the Buna area, at a
place known as Cape Ward Hunt,
has broken out, with the "Nips"
being slaughtered by the hundreds.
Elsewhere in the Southwest Pacific,
the war situation remains unchang-
ed. The Japs seem to be bewilder-
ed 1t is quite probable that they
have not as yet recovered from the
terrific beating they took in the
Solomon battle. 1t may be that they
are resting up and preparing for
another all out attack in that area.
Let them come, they will get blast
ed like their predecessors.
/s/o/
CFrOm the Industrial News)
Citizens have yet to realize that
imitation is not an easy way to es-
cape financial difficulties. They
have yet to realize that it is a
costly luxury THAT it can perma-
nently destroy basic liberties.
According to figures released by
the Office of Emergency Manage
ment, the infiationary rise in prices
during the period between Septem-
ber, 1889, and May, 1912, surpassed
the total cost of World War l. In
other words, Americans have in eff
feet squandered over $30,000,000,-
900 in FOOLS paradise of war pros
perity because they will not aban-
don the fallacious notion that the
other fellow-presumably the rich
fellow-should pay all the taxes.
Taxation is still being used as a
political instrument of social
change.
National income is soaring, con-
sumer supplies are dwindling, tax
revenue is far short of war re-
quirements, painless" government
borrowing from the banks contin-
ues at a staggering pace, and still
politicians and public alike avoid
an honest, hard-boiled reckoning.
They avoid the fact that high war
wages are little more than an il
lusion. Initiation will reduce them
if taxes don't. And every billion
that we spend on imitation lessons
the chances for survival of indi-
vidual freedom after the war. Every
billion so spent lessons the conf
dence of all peoples in future fl
nancial stability.
/S/s/
MAMA