Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-01-17

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and threats of strikes, the Amer
lean people are awakened to
deeper sense of public obligation
of citizenship.
Wise Words We can stand
OF Woodrow almost any kind
Wilson of sacrifice if
ultimate gain is
made for the common good. We
have won the war with our world
enemies but have we yet won
the war? If peace is merely the
absence of mortal conflict then
we have it. But if peace means
what our boys were told they
were fighting for then we don't
have it by a long shot.
1t was during his tour of the
country fighting for the League
of Nations that the martyred
President Wilson said: 81 would
like to get together the boys who
fought in the war, and ! would
stand up before them and say
Boys, / told you before you
went across the seas that this was
a war against wars and did my
best to fulfill the promise, but l
am obliged to come to you in
modification and shame and say
! have not been able to fulfill
the promise. You are betrayed. >
You fought for
BOYS, something you
You Are did not get +.
Betrayed" and there will
come sometime,
in the vengeful Providence of
God, another struggle in which,
not a few hundred thousand fine
nash from America will have to
die, but as many millions as are
necessary to accomplish the final
freedom of the peoples of the
world"
That is what President Wilson
said back in 1919 and unless the
trend of world affairs comes to a
final solution of the problems
existing and all nations come to
an agreement to outlawlwars the
same statement could be made tc
the millions of our men who
served on foreign soil in fulfill
ment of Wilson's prophesy.
We need our best thought to
cope with international problems.
That our diplomats will be toler-
ant and patient with suspicious Of
old world diplomats yet unyieldinl
in their insist
Are We ence that nothin,
Free shall Illustrate II
From Fear? American idea
of peace is the
sincere thought of every true
American. The kind of peace
our diplomats are seeking is the
kind which will eliminate actual
warfare.
But there is another phase of
peace which must be worked out
by the individual American. II
is the right of each of US ia
I enjoy the fruits of the sacrifices
made by our men fighting for
peace. We want peace at home
and peace at home is impossible
while there is as much strife as
exists today on the economic
front. We need to look at facts
as facts effect US and our neigh
bors. We need to look at men
seeking public office to ascertain
how much courage they have or
lack in dealing realistically with
these big problems. We don't
want men who are afraid either
of the big money people or of
the CLIO and its PAC. We can
not have the peace of which we
dreamed until all this pickering
and struggle is ended. And it
will ultimately be ended by leg
islation which will have the
kind of teeth to make it effective.
We want to understand that
we are not living at peace when
it is possible (even probable)
that at the same time we can
be denied the use of electricity
gas, coal, oil, automobiles, tele-
phones, etc. President Roosevelt
MADE famous his slogan of "free-
dom from Fear" Are we free
from fear when we don't know
when some public service might
be denied us7