Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-11
EXAMPLE TO WORLD

record OF the war and navy de-
partments 10 have taken part In
1repelling the attack by the Japa-
|nese on Pearl Harbor on Dec. z,
1941.
DESERVE RECOGNITION
I think these men are entitled 10
recognition for the glorious fight
they made against overwhelming
odds that Sunday morning. All
honor to them.
I registered last week for my
first ration card. sugar, as did
you and yours. Within a few days,
we In the East will have our
gasoline rationed.
Tire rationing. auto mileage ra-
tioning. cars into storage or into
service for the nation; shortages
or the loss Of gadgets; longer
hours and fewer pleasures: higher
costs of living and higher taxes
what are all these. my friends,
compared TO the jungles Of Bataan
or the hell that Corregidor must
have been?
A TASK FOR Us
We have a task to do. Not all
of US can die gloriously for our
country. But the rest OF US can
live and work and do what our
hands find TO do that these hepoes
shall not fight and suffer and die
in vain.
These men of Bataan and of
Corregidor, their comrades in
camps and at battle stations, their
comrades that go TO the sea in
ships, and TO far places OF the
world in planes, did not and are
not dying Just TO win a war. nor
even for a certain geographical
area OF the world.
Did you ever stop 10 think why
the Filipinos fought as bravely
and as whole heartedly as did our
own soldiers and sailors and
marines in the Philippines?
FOUGHT FOR SELVES
4 Because the Philippines were.
In way. a dependency of the
United States OF America?
! think l can tell you Why. Be
cause the Filipinos felt. they knew
that they were fighting for their
own; for way OF life; for Sys-
tenn OF government that preserved
and fostered what we call the
dignity of the individual
And that is what we fight for.
and must continue 10 fight for
our own independence, our way of
life, our system Of government
that is for and by and of the
people.
PLAY OUR PART
And, in this fight for preserva-
ton we at home can and must
play our parts. with equal dcvo-
ton, with equal courage. with the
same unyielding doggedneSS that
held Bataan and Corregidor until
every resource was exhausted.
The United States of America is
the final citadel of the rights of
. nan, IL you want TO put il in that
lind of language.
In our own country, for the pres
cnt and immediate future, the
interest of the individual is en-
trely subordinate 10 the general
welfare. And that must be.
sUBMERGE INTERESTS
There is no way 10 avoid it
} attempt 10 evade the obligation
If the individual 10 subordinate
his own immediate interests TO the
interest OF the nation as a whole
would be suicidal. That would be
unthinkable in this kind of an
emergency.
The government needs the rub
her TO prosecute the war. So. the
individual must give up, for the
: time being. the use of his auto
lmobile except as the use of the
car is in the interest OF winning
the war.
War necessities require steel
and other materials for ships and
planes and tanks and guns and
munitions factories and airfields
and cantonments. So, the individ-
ual must do without.
MORE MONEY OUT
There will be more and more
money in circulation. fewer and
fewer goods that can be purchased
with these dollars.
The ration card, something new