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logistics and transport and production,
add we know that fronts are hard to open.
*But we know also that we came into
this profession of soldiering in all good
faith. Many of us came because we were
asked and because it was our duty. We
came with a common purpose and a common
goal.
"We came here to fight.
"We have waited.
"Complex be the v/orld or not, we came
here to fight,
"*7e did not come here to wait.
"Did they wait at Dunkirk for some min
istry to build them a fleet of luxury lin
ers to come and take them home? Did they
wait at Tobruk for air-conditioned bar
racks? Or over the channel in September,
1940, did they sit around and wait for a
new catalogue of fighter planes to hurl at
the enemy?
"ine marines nave rma incir ux
fen&ive crack e.t the enemy in the Solomon
Islands. The Navy has had its crack at the
Axi9 all over the v/orld» The Air Force has
knocked silly certain of the enemy emplace
ments. However, their action alone will
not 7/in this war, and we know it. The
greater burden lies with the Army, and the
Army has not had it9 chance c.t offensive
action.
"Tfe knov/ that only the warrior is the
conqueror, and we cannot win this war with
out fightine,
"It is not easy. It is never going to be
be easy to open a front or start fighting.
But as soldiers, we came here to fight.
"THEN ... DO 7£ FIGHT?"
This sentiment finds an echo in the
hearts of America's fighting'men in all
parts of the world, according to dispatch
es from newspaper men v/ho have had person
al interviews with American soldiers in
England, Australia, Egypt and other widely
scattered fronts.
The eagerness of the men of the armed
services to come to grips with the enemy
offers a striking contrast with the reports
of low morale conditions in the nation's
training centers a year ago and offers c
confident promise of a real victory and
reveals an Army and Navy, constituting a
mighty force in the cause it knows so well
to be true, eager, even imoatient, to be
"at it."
Mrs. S. T. Carlow hae been made manager
of the Recreation Hall lunchroom. Mrs.
Carlow was at one time in charge of the
Husky Lunch at Mountain View* Anchorage.
Mrs. Harold Moore* who has been mona
ging the Recreation Hall lunchroom* is en
joying a 15-day vacation at home on their
farm.
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or woman who spreads these reports. He
or she will bear watching.
Residents of the Valley, it is tine for
sono straight talking. We are not do
ing our share of War Bond buying. Too
nany of us are willing to make excuses
for not buying bonds instead of aaking
sacrifices to buy them. Ask yourself
the Question if you are doing your share
in paying the debt you owe., those men wfyo
died and who will die..to preserve for
you and your-children and your children's
children THE FOUR FREEDOMS? If you are
satisfied that you are, then, don't buy
bonds. But, remember, it is a big debt.
They have given their lives that we might
stay at home, enjoy our wages, our fam
ilies, our freedom* They did not ques
tion whether thsir sacrifice was too
great.
Palmer is definitely not doing its
share. The percentage of sales in pro
portion to population is not up td the
par of the remainder of the Territory,
So far, this is ,up to you. It* may be
come necessary in the near future- to en
force saving in. the form of thesS bonds.
Not merely to support the war effort, but
to protect you from the ravishes of in
flation. We can curb this by saving
money toward that day when the war is
won and we must again transform our fac
tories back again to civil life. Then,
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