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AMERICA
AMERICAN
Poem by RAY MADISON
Editor. Center Post-Dispatch
Center. Colorado
I.
I*m writing to you, dear dad,
Because I know you'll understand
The way I feel about our native
land. •
We are afraid, my pals and I—
No; I do not mean afraid to die—
It's just the things we hear
That make us fear—
Reports of strikes that slow the
flow
Of guns and planes and tanks
To battle fronts.
And we would like to know
Who is to blame;
What sabotage is dimming free
dom’s flame;
Are you, at home, about to lose
the game?
Dad, do the very best you can !
To keep America American.
II.
When we come back
(If we do come back)
We will expect to find our liberty
intact—
Such as »he right to choose our
way of life;
Each as an individual man—
It is for this we fight and plan.
We grant no governing power to
bureaucrats,
We do not want a gestapo
To spy upon us every place we
go;
We do not want security—we'll
♦ake a chance
To live as free men or fill graves,
For we have seen
What it can mean
To be the slaves of dictatorships.
And we abhor
Their lust for power.
Because they forced us into war.
Every liberty -loving man
Should keep America American.
III.
I'm making plans for me and you,
And not forgetting Be*ty Lou
Whom I expect to marry when
The war is over, and I’m home
again—
I want to give my sons a heritage
As priceless as the one I knew.
And dad, that’s why I’m trussing
you
To keep our country just! the
same
As when I left.
I do not want a new-made
world—
Just home, and work
At jobs I’ve always done;
If I can play a fair, square game
and win
I want *o keep the laurels I have
won.
Not being told how much to plant
or sow;
No price set on the product of
my toil,
That’s all I crave—
I’ll not need any “cradle to the
grave”
Plans made for me,
Because I will be my own man.
And don’t you see”
America will be American.
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IV
So dad, don’t throw me and my
buddies down—
Some of us, of course, will not
return—
m We will not rue to lie in foreign
soil;
We’ll rest in peaceful sleep
If you but keep
The torch of liberty aglow.
The blood of heroes is a sacred
oil
That feeds the flames of freedom
In a never-ceasing flow.
So dad, do everything you can
To keep America American.
Now dad, it’s up tp you to keep
1 the score,
And help us win the things we’re
fighting for.
Needless directives, useless waste,
Thoughtless planning and costly
haste:
. .These are the fruits of dictator
ship—
These are the things that you
must whip.
Starry-eyed dreamers, power-mad
fools,
Egotistic asses and unwitting
tools;
These are the saboteurs
You’ll have to ban
To keep America American.
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TORPEDO MAKES 60-FOOT HOLE —Shown in a I\ S. dry dork, this vessel will re
quire 1,500,000 pounds of steel to close the 60-foot torpedo holt in its how see ikon
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WHAT IT MEANS—
U. S Victory i
In Marshalls
By NED NORDNESS
WASHINGTON — The smash
ingly successful method of attack
used by the Navy in knocking
the Japanese out of their best
bases in ‘he Marshalls means two
things—both sad—for Tokyo.
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1. —The Navy now has massed
in the Pacific a fleet of such
striking power that it now can,
for probably the first time since
war began, mount offensives
against key points of Japan’s em
pire that before were considered
months and years away.
2. —The Navy can adopt bold
tactics that at times will approx
imate the blivz warfare common
on land fronts.
! Here are some figures that il
lustrate the amazing comeback of
the Navy: „v
On Dec. 7, 1941, we had 344
warships, including 17 bat’le
ships and seven carriers. By Jan.
1, 1943, the number went up to
419, and by last November, this
number had doubled.
! Aircraft carrier power in the
same period increased from seven
to 56 known craft (including es
cort carriers).
! Our naval forces now consist
of 14,000 ships of all types, in
cluding auxiliaries, and 27,000
planes.
These vessels, of course, are
1 divided in4o fleets serving in sev
eral theaters of action. It is gen
erally known, however, that the
Pacific floats our greatest arma
da. And the reported two million
i tons of fighting ships that ground
the Marshall defenses into noth
i ingness provides more proof than
I the enemy probably wants that
the Pacific fleet is now ready to
go.
The Navy’s present offensive
power being what it is, there no
' longer is need to strike fast and
I then hide, as was the practice
! after Pearl Harbor,
i At the start of the Solomon
: Islands offensive, for example,
ships usually darted in at night
with men and supplies. Warships
usually engaged superior naval
strength in running battles fought
after dark. But now the Navy
can stand around enemy bases,
as it did in the Marshalls, and
virtually challenge the Japanese
fleet to come out and fight. The
fact that the Japanese didn’t at
that time—but chose to wait un
til they could have all the advan
tages on their side—is perhaps
the most significant thing about
the Marshalls conquest.
HE DOES THE
CROWING NOW
JOPLIN, Mo. —(AP)— Kit
Vickrey, Joplin park superinten
dent, boasts he stopped roosters
from crowing early in the morn
by placing a board over their
necks. He says a cock can’t crow
when his neck is cramped.
Benjamin Franklin was the first
postmaster general under the con
tinental congress of the United
States.
"DIAMOND TOOTH LIL"
REMEMBERS ORPHANS
BOISE, Idaho —'AP>— Dia
mond Tooth Lil,” once a buxom
siren of San Francisco’s Bi.rbary
Coast, says she has willed to the
Idaho Children’s Home the tem
that has gleamed in one ol her
front teeth for 36 years.
“When I die I want the tooth
sold at auction and the money
given to the children’s home,”;
said the 57-year-old woman, born
i
Evelyn F'ialla in a town near'
Vienna, Austria.
To ease shelling ol hard cooked
eggs, acid sail to water in which
they aret cooked to make shell
harder and more brit'le and
easier to take off.
SHERIFF'S SON
GETS HIS BOY
OREGON CITY. Ore. — <AP>— i
| If you’re outside the law here
abouts Sheriff Fred Reaksecker
i* one person to dodge. And so is
his ] 3-year-old son.
Dean Reaksecker was in his
I father's office when a girl re
| ported she had been held up by
j a boy and robbed of 25 cents.
|. A half hour later the sheriff’s
telephone rang.
“Say, dad,” his son said, “I got
that kid that held up that girl.
I’m bringing him in."
He did, too. The 11-year-old
captive turned out to be a boy
; police had tried to nab for more
than a year.
“I’d seen this kid around with
plenty of money for candy and ice
cream,” Dean explained. “When Ij
, saw him on the street after this
j girl said she had been robbed, I
figured he was the one who did
: it.”
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT EGGS COST
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — <AP>—
Friends wouldn’t be surprised if
Frank Evans started cackling any
day now.
When the 49-year-old janitor
was offered three dozen scram
bled eggs if he would eat them
all at one sitting, Evans accept
ed. He ate the eggs, ate four
slices of toast, sopped his plate
and claimed he was still hungry.
The very next day, Evans won
a similar proposition by eating
another dozen eggs.
Tell them you saw it in The
Nugget.
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All Honor To Our Boys and Girls In
The Armed Services!
This Honor Star is for every man and woman from this Territory'
who is serving in the armed forces of our country. You are perform*
ing a duty which will be remembered with honor forever down
through the pages of history . . .
YOUR HOME COMMUNITY IS PROUD OF YOU!
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