Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-11-23

TsHE TIME for official and
general complaint against
public complacency toward the
war was thought to have passed.
Yet it seems true there is a gen.
eral letdown so noticeable as to
require a word from General
Eisenhower beseeching the peo>
pie back home to give his troops
more ammunition. 1t has even been
stated that ra-
COmplacency tioning of am
Toward munition was,
The War nee ssary on
some parts of
the European front, That this
could be fact seems almost un-
belieyable and yet statements
from such men as Director
Byrnes and General Eisenhower
cannot be questioned. In Balti-
more, there has developed new
shortage of manpower which re-
suits from a return of war;
workers to their homes in other
sections of the country. The
same is said to be true of num-
! -.
Der Of other important industrial
centers.
Such conditions should never
have been allowed to develop.
Mass movement of people to war
producing areas provided work
ers in the earlier months of the
war. Big money and overtime
kept them interested and on the
job. Housing facilities were at
a premium. This has beer. fol-
lowed by q great number of "for
rent signs which is definite in
dicaticn that the mass movement
is nov back home. Universal
service would have prevented
this scarcity Of vital labor in
vital war industries. No man
competent to perform a job essen
tial to the war effort should be
allowed to quit at his own pleas
ure. No man
Universal qualified to per-
Service form any work
Still Needed which would con-
tribute directly
toward prosecution Of the war
should be any freer of his choice
than the man who is inducted
into the armed service and told
what, when, how, where and not
WHY the assignment should be
done. General Eisenhc wer's
armies cannot push forward with
out the necessary guns and am
munition. Our campaign to break
the vaunted Siegfried Line has
been hampered by lack Of suf-
ficient ammunition. The end of
hostilities in Europe can be de-
layed unless this ammunition is
provided in such abundance as to
eliminate any concern of mill
tary leaders about ammunition
supplies.
Nearly every family in Amer
lea knows intimately some boy
in the service sufficiently well
to be alarmed over any lack Of
home interest which might ex-
tend the time of this wars end.
It is unfortunate, however, that
there are some who at this late
date fail to realize the great
catastrophe to a family in the
loss of one or more boys. AS
DIR. Isaiah Bowman stated in his
speech opening the Sixth War
Loan Drive in Baltimore on
Tuesday Of this week the men at
the front are fighting to get this
war over with in the hope of
coming back home to the things
they have been told they were
fighting for. 1t Is erroneous,
DIR. Bowman pointed out, to
accept the state
1Are They ment that they
Fighting are fighting for
For Us?" US. Are they
fighting for us?'
he asked, and answered his own
question by saying that they are
definitely not fighting for those
people who care. nothing about
the war-those who have shown
a complete disregard of the sac
rifces made-the human skunks
who, purposely or thought
lessly (and there's not a great
difference) assume an attitude
that the war is Of no Importance
to them and that their own sell
fish plans must be served first.
The lessons taught as during
the past few years should prove