The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-02-26


1t can't be helped. What is needed
will have to be given.
1t ought to be given with thanks
that we can give it. Only by winning
is life to be made secure, worth while,
free.
Most Americans have read descrip-
tions of what has happened to peoples
conquered by the Nazi barbarians. 1t
is destruction of everything, including
life itself.
Today's battle news looks good. But
don't be swept away by it. War ebbs
and flows. Not all one way all the
time We can get some terrible blows
before we win.
So, we must give what it takes until
victory is complete, final, nailed down.
There was speculation about what
had become of Hitler 1t seems he has
bobbed up. But he didn't bob up de-
claiming and strutting. Unless it's
pose, Hitler is on his way to eclipse.
He started as Schickelgruber; he'll
end as one.
However, the Nazi army isn't bust
ed 1t has had a terrible lacing in
Russia. But there's plenty of it left.
We look ahead to much hard going.
Not to pillow fight.
1t will take men. 1t will take guns
and all manner of explosives. Thou
sands upon thousands of Nazis must
be slain. And too many Americans.
The civilian who has to go short of
fuel and gas and perhaps of food can
say to himself, that, no matter how
hard the going, his lot is easy as COM
pared to that of the man who's going
to be part of the invasion force in
Europe
There has been bungling; there will
be more; it's an awful big war to run
without some mistakes, some bungles.
We have to take the bad with the good
and put into the war what it needs of
EVERYTHING-until we win.
We could do with lot less of Sena-
tor Gerald P Nye
His yammerings must sound won
derful in the Buna regions.
But probably better in Berlin and
Toxic.
Nye and a handful of others. Who
the hell do they think they are? Or do
they know?
But every war has had some such
manifestation.
Out of the first World War came
that little "band of willful men"
Helping to lay the foundation for
today's conflict.
We have to win the war and we
have to win inside as well as outside.
1t has to be so that big fellows can
not jump on and mangle and bleed to
death the little fellows all over the
world.
1t won't all come out perfect right
away, but it has to get started with
a foundation on which growth can
keep going.
We have plenty of wrongs right
here in the United States after all
these years, but we have constitu-,
tion that makes it possible to carry
on continuous process of eliminating
wrong and giving strength to right
policies and practices.
We have chance, too, to change
our minds about what is right and
good as we go along For instance
what was right before we had auto
mobiles became wrong after the roads
got full of them. Speed, for example.
When we changed we did so as
people; not with gauleiter cracking
a whip.
So, with incredible devourings of all
manner of things, the war moves on
to its great climax. 1t engulfs the
globe in its furnace of melting every
thing for recast of almost all the
world
This tremendous thing cannot be
done without incalculable cost. If it is
our role to stand that cost, let us do
it proudly. Let US do large things in
the large way
1t takes huge giving of every
thing; back of that there must be
huge determination.
It's a job for the blue OK and the
blue OK knows it!-CMW.
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