Milford chronicle., 1943-04-23

tons on your Payroll Savings Plan.
Let's "TOp that ten percent"
U. S. Treasury Department
That powerful fighting force. the
English Eighth Army, led by Cen
eral Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.
NJ. d. w. master of Desert War
fare) has sprung another surprise
infantry attack in the moonlight to
seize the stragetic mountain
heights at Enfidaville. which ac-
cOrding to all reports, dominate
the coastal highway to Tunis.
which Ancient city lies only forty
miles to the north. In the sky the
Americans and British airmen con-
tinue to haress the dwindling Nazi
legions of the air, destroying 112
Axis raiders in something less than
two days. With the infantry and
sky forces clicking in perfect har-
mOny. and the big guns of the AL
lied artillery adding their rain of
steel and explosives. this particu-
lar section of North Africa is get
ting mighty unhealthy for the
spawn of Facism.
/S/s/
In the South Pacific the Aus
sizes" and the "Yanks" continue to |
send the "Jingoists" from Toxic |
back on their heels. that his yellow
bellied nibs is taking his South |
Pacific hurts to heart is evidenced |
by the shakeups which TOTO is
making in his Imperial war cabi- |
net. Well. TOjo, il is going to take
more than changing two or three |
slant eyes in your cabinet to
make you smile again. for there
just isn't going to be any more
smiles for you. you and the whole |
crew of dirty sinking rotten little |
rats, who hoped to scuttle our ship |
of state at Pearl Harbor. are due
to drown in your own bilge water.
for the Yanks are coming. coming |
right to Toxic to pay you and your
feeble-minded ruler, Hirohito, a
little visits. but before they leave.
they are going to load the whole
crooked works up on what few
ships you may have left. open the
seacocks and let the tail go with
the hide"
/O/O/
The retail merchant has become
the man in the middle-in the mid
die of that no mans land-where a
fighting government collides with
a fighting, consuming public. Both
of these fighting elements are al
lies, but like most allies they don't
get along too well sometimes. A
spoiled public which has been in
the habit of getting what it wants
when it wants it from an incredi-
bly, efficient retail distribution sys-
lem, cannot be expected to don the
halter of shortages and be led
about by dictatorial decress with
)ut kicking the daylights out of a
few regulatory fences. Unfortu-
lately the retailers upon whose
fall the responsibility of
explaining and applying the re-
are the ones who get
Kicked most often. For that reason
I is only fair to give them a pat on
he back occasionally. They deserve :
{. Retail distributors, both chain
md Independent, have shown =.
ability to interpret and :
tut into practical operation liter ',
lily thousands of new wartime
regulations con- r
:eived by lawyers and experts with +,
title or no merchandising expert =
nee. Most of the regulations car Il
y heavy Jail sentences and fines :,
or violations. Laboring in the n
hadow of stiff penalties, thousands "
f merchants throughout the coun-
ry work out the rules as they un- !,
erstand them, often without ben II
fit of legal advice, and put them =,
n force. They know it has to be \,
one or the distribution system will ~
reak down, bringing disaster to s'
he country. They try to explain s.
mis- to customers, while striving TO a.
ct the government to simplify and ~
ase inequalities in the rules "i
either the public nor most gov -
experts actually compre- y,
end the heavy responsibility -. -
'hich retail merchants bear in III
elping to maintain economic sta -.
ility during the emergency. Con- e., 81
liners should be slow to criticize &c &c
lie retailer for inconveniences ov- 0'
: which he has no control. The -.
)vernment should constantly seek u ~
make burdensome restrictions ", "
IS onerous. And both the public Va, va
Id the government should be less -. =:
lick to. accuse retailers of evil III III
tent when one of ten thousand Sc,
lies has been inadvertently vio- ml m
ted. W.
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