The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-15

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MEANING OF UNITY
IN WAR EFFORT
THERE IS NO DOUBT about
America being collectively unit
back of the government in the world
contest in which we are engaged.
We are all of that unit. Every man,
woman and child wants the govern
ment to win.
But there is a difficulty. We must
be more than collectively support
ing the war. It must be more than
government war. 1t must be in
dividually our war. We must think
of what losing it would do to each
individual and what stake each of us
has in the defeat of the Huns and
Japs.
We had that individual interest in
the First World war. We had it
largely because each individual had
a definite part or place in it. We
had Liberty bond sales, with q
quota set up for each community,
each county, ward, township and
block. 1t was Joe Browns job
to see that Frank Mills bought one
or more bonds, and it was Frank
Mills job to see that George Smith
came across.
When it was not bond sales, it was
Red Cross, YMCA, Salvation Army,
Knights of Columbus, or some other
drive for war funds. In all these,
quotas were set and it was up to
the individual to meet those quotas
in the field allotted to him or her.
Such efforts included the school chill
dren. They brought their pennies
and nickels and dimes, and made
sacrifices to do so.
That war was the individuals
war, with something definite for each
of us to do, and over which we
could, and did, enthuse. Through do
ing each individual job, we, indi-
vidually, hated the Germans. The
kaiser was the enemy, not only of our
government, but of each one of us.
To arouse the full force of Amer
lea, to make this an 'all-out'' war,
we must each have a definite job to
do, and we will do it. Civilian de-
tense is only part Of what we
need. With that must be civilian
offense-doing something on the
part of the individual that will hit
the enemy. We need brass bands,
flags flying and parades, OF which
we, as individuals, will be part.
When each of us has been as
signed a job to do, this will be an
individual as well as a national
war. When it is that, there will be
no doubt of its being an "all-out''
war. via
RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
AND AMERICA
ABOUT A YEAR AGO Daniel j.
Schuyler, Chicago attorney, said to
me:
what America needs most is
a great religious revival. It would
arouse our sense Of responsibility
as nothing else could"
At the time wrote a piece about
that statement which appeared in
this column.
In something Of the same vein,
81 citizens of Dinwiddie county, Vir-
ginia, addressed statement to the
general public through the columns
Of the Southside Virginia News at
Petersburg, Va.
That statement calls for prayer
full appeal by the people for Divine
guidance and spiritual support that
will enable us, as people, to carry
on in these days Of conflict with the
forces of evil.
That appeal represents the Chris
tan virtues for which we are fight
ing. Its 81 signatures are of all
] types of citiZens-teachers, farmers,
merchants, doctors, workmen, pub
lie officials, lawyers, bankers and
others. 1t is truly representative,
not alone of the people Of Dinwiddie
county, Virginia, but Of the people
of every county in every state. We
are Christian nation, and it is well
that we make public acknowledge
ment of our dependence upon Divine
guidance.
YOUR NEWSPAPER A
BULWARK OF UNITY
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS Of
America, those published in COM
munities of few hundred to a few
thousand people, constitute one Of
Americas important institutions.
Their editors of an earlier day pio-
neered from ocean to ocean. They
aided materially in building commu-
mites and in developing those commu-
mites into market places and cultural
centers. They were, and are, the
spokesman for rural America. Pro-
lection for the town and farm home
is their province. They are listened
to, and their views are respected in
the legislative assemblies of the
land. In these days of national peril,
they, collectively, are a bulwark for
national unity, maintaining the cour-
age and patriotism of rural Amer
lea. They are safe, sane and sensi-
BILE, and stand four square for the