The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-12

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peace that is just, charitable, and en-
during.
II we really believe that we are
fighting for a peoples peace, all the
rest becomes easy. Production, yes
it will be easy to get production with
the wholehearted cooperation be
tween willing arms and keen brains;
enthusiasm, zip, energy geared to the
tempo Of keeping at it everlastingly
day after day Hitler knows as well
as those of us who sit in on the War
Production Board meetings that we
here in the United States are win
ming the battle Of production. He
knows that both labor and business
in the United States are doing most
remarkable job and that his only hope
is to crash through to complete VIC
tory some time during the next six
months.
And then there is the task of trans
portation to the line of battle by
truck, by railroad car, by ship. We
shall joyously deny ourselves SO that
our transportation system is improved
by at least 80 per cent.
Our Youths Hate War
need say little about the duty to
fight. Some people declare, and Hit
Ter believes, that the American people
have grown soft in the last genera
ton. Hitler agents continually
preach in South America that we are
towards, unable to use, like the
brave" German soldiers, the weapons
of modern warfare. 1t Is true that
American youth hates war with holy
hatred But because of that fact and
because Hitler and the German people
stand as the very symbol Of war, we
shall fight with tireless enthusiasm
until war and the possibility Of war
have been removed from this planet.
We shall cleanse the plague spot
of Europe, which Is HltIer's Ger
many, and with It the heII-hoe Of
Asia-Japan.
The American people have always
had the quits and always will have. |
You know the story of Bomber Pilot
Dixon and Radioman Gene Aldrich
and Ordnanceman Tony Pastula-the
story which Americans will be telling |
their children for generations to Illus
trate mans ability to master any fate.
These men lived for 81 days on the
open sea in rubber life raft, feet |
by 4 feet, with no food but that which |
no nd tha oil
with one pocket knife and a pistol. |
And yet they lived it through and
came at last to the beach of an island |
they did not know. In spite of their
suffering and weakness, they stood
like men, with no weapon left to pro-
tect themselves, and no shoes on their
feet or clothes on their backs, and
walked in military file because, they
said, "if there were Japs, we didn't
want to be crawling"
Madman's Affect ear
The American fighting men, and all
the fighting men of the United Ma
lions, will need to summon all their
courage during the next few months.
I am convinced that the summer and
fall of 1912 will be time Of supreme
crisis for us all. Hitler, like the prize
fighter who realizes he is on the verge
Of being knocked out, is gathering all
his remaining forces for one last des-
perate blow. There is abject fear in
the heart of the mailman and a grow
ing discomfort among his people as he
prepares for his last about offensive l
We may be sure that Hitler and G
Japan will cooperate to do the I'M t
xpected-perhaps an attack by Japan T
against Alaska and our Northwest c
coast at time when German trans
port planes will be shuttled across
rom Dakar to furnish leadership and L
'tiffening to a German uprising In r
latin America. In any event, the ?