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...Europe and the Far East men are starving, but the U.S. is still blessed with abundance, and the land has not yet been put to its utmost test. There is still a margin, for shipments of food to the U.S.'s allies, for replacement of oils which once came from the Far East. Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard, who had announced the greatest farm program in history only last September, has revised his goals and announced others still bigger. This year the land will be asked for more & more of its wealth. And the land will respond...
Officers and men of the Netherlands Merchant Marine have their families in Holland--under the power of the Nazis. Nowhere they find a home, a place to rest, if only for a few days. The Netherlanders in all ports of America are doing their utmost to help them. We started furnishing a home for them at this moment in the new sailors' club of Boston. It is the usual story--few funds, and we need much. Are there, perhaps, some students at Harvard who have an easy chair, some pictures they don't need just now and would be willing...
Because of these findings the National Education Association last week sent an SOS to school boards throughout the land, urged them to up teachers' pay. Said N.E.A.: "The longtime battle for democracy will be won in the schools. ... It is of utmost importance to the American way of life that we do not weaken our longtime defense . . . [as] was done...
...Pilot, diocesan organ of William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, last week editorialized: "Wars can be just. Violence may be used against the unjust aggressor." Said the other U.S. holder of the red hat, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia: "Like our fellow American citizens we will do our utmost to protect our country by winning the war, and...to that end we place at the disposal of our Government everything in our possession...
...ideal soldier fulfills his duty to the utmost, obeys without even thinking, thinks only when ordered to do so, and has as his only desire to die the honorable death of a soldier killed in action...