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is a loiitimato ilita purpose." Dick inquired. "uglless Vt isﬂtéeiluléill everybody you can?"

attack was nothing but a, plqin 391', of savaxvry. This ll not war, but inu§er!"' . “ id you h tn) naive?“ askezlveéihereal: my n! n "Was that first attack a. bad

yell with honor-that raid killed ten people and wounded eleven."

"Holy smoke!" exclaimed Dick, and the others Joined in his deris- ion. A moment later Dick added. "Heres a swcli side-angle on the air raids. Itsays the men in Lon-

\\'-\lil€‘(l the neighbors to see them running uruund in something more becoming lo British dignity than nightslurts."

‘rm-y chuckled joytuliy. Cherry exclaimed, "i wish you'd 100k at these recipes tor ivar-meais. ‘Free- dom Meat Loaf.‘ made out oi pea- nuts and cornmeal."

"Peanuts do have Vitamin B in them stiggested Julia.

" yd never heard of. Vita- min B," Dick said scorniully. hey had w eat peanuts and call ‘em meat because our brave allies were buying up all the meat with the‘ money they borrowed and didn't pa)" beck and never did intend to pay back. Do look at that head- iine-Jrvery housewife who saves meat and flour in her home is bringing nearer the day of uni- versal dunocracyl”

“Do you suppose they really oe- lieved all that?" Cherry asked in wonder.

Outside, on the balcony. Eliza- beth lifted her hands irom the arms or the chair and raw that each or the bright blue cushions we; stained with a round spot 0t dampness where she had gripped them. 0n the otherside of the Win- dow the children made some fresh discovery and went oif into an- other peal of lauxher. gay. mock- ing. and terrible because it utterly innocent. Elizabeth stood up. her muscles tense with impulse. Then she stopped, standing mo- tionless because she did not know w-hat the impulse was. To do wmething to them-but what? She could not walk in upon them white with anger and cry out. "Yes. we believed itl You inhuman young wretchea. we believed it!"

She could not lay that becaule they were not inhuman, and they were not wretchea; they were young and well-bred and intelli- gent, and they would hear with a pained bewilderment, with the cool 1081c 0t their Yea"- "Aren’t you ashamed that. you did. when you look at the world we're living in?"

And her son-Who was seventeen

would ask her with the same cool Io c. “Do you want me t0 b8- iieve 1t this time?"

How strange it would be i! she

should try m tell them anything about Arthur. body had asked them, they could have answered after a moment's 'I‘hey would be shocked into un- wmtoxtable eilence. Or they might, _ _ _ n ‘Rik die could answer. tor the! HOUSA s AND THOUSAND. or m ‘m M had told her themselves. He had ed o died m, m» Beneration oi her oma ne mllionr of rounds of ammunition every day‘ t t b li in thi . ' a}, g1; Qfzuehjﬁf“ cw” “é every hour, every minute on every ﬁghting from. T!" G11!!! 811! hungry in their demand. Ammunition i; Her children could amwer her now. but es she stood

er children knew-that is. 1i 81W- ‘ _ ’ ‘ l‘ " ~ . , ‘ l’ ‘ _ -“. l “ H;

reflection-that their lather '- v V ' l ~ _‘ ~ l _ . . their mother's second . . v

she was not cure they had ever , ' . _ - been told their mother's first liiis- - v v -

band had lost his liie in that War ‘ ’ ' they were lauqhini at. It they ‘

had ever heard this, evidently they _

had forgotten about it. How ian- - _ ' mm 1g would seem to them if the '

broke now into their Jolly dial-tel‘ i .

to say. "I know all about that war . » »

you rind no absurd. and that centi- ,

mental nonsense that sent men out -

to die. I loved a man who died

for it." --

hdlrlﬂhtfndmltlra ll’ i 1:: Ind at. "For what?" own children. to give them the could li her. tho futility sacriﬁce She i thi war, you'll have your . , ' i '. l , - > .

3:13am? 1: we don't. you won't - i . - a - v - - swallowed up on a scale never before imagined.

within sound of - , v “V - V» _ . ~ ' " ' '

“m, t v V A _ And the supply must never fail.

them. ' . . - - y ~ _ ' ‘ ' Mom h WW“ W" "m" . - ._ l‘ , ._ _» ‘ ‘ We on the home front are in honor bound to meet this

mpg new 1508813709”! and hm“ 11M lgughtgf again. Cherry lin-

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warship! hurling 2000 tone of ex- hasaspced ofﬁrc ZOrounds per unbelievable speed of ﬁre of 115p and in the airv Even an hOlll"S let-up in ouf (jombined

hfTo be ammo-ii» I -. - . _ P ml"! ill 20 minutlr." 100 tons minute. the same no the celebrated rounds pcr minute! When the num.

‘w x m“ Ho‘... per minute! Thisis junt one nlngle Bren Gun. It lo h ndl d b b f ﬁ b1 ,1 r ' s _ Jﬁl-Lielrt. Giria- inntanceoutofthouuands,taken an man. Tommy Gun: Irate plea‘; inebcsionilubctilgsigctblsf ﬂilﬂrllts:?ifgflg effort at hotne [nay “lean a delay In the ultimate Victory of

her Ridbin Milne, Ion U! A.A. n‘ example of the stupendous most potent: wen one in thin war other opcratlonalplanca ualn this ' I been ammunition depletion on d b i h d ' g whl-Ch WC one“ f“ it“... m" .'i?...‘;§f.i‘.“3r§.§f.. "£155.11? mania.zs:z.".rzrz..uzrsiizrzs.sf a” “‘“'°d' W m“ “°‘ l“ °‘"' "W" 4°“ Normandy to the jungles ofBurn-ia.

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