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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 2

"Never has such a power-house (as th: United States) been set in motion in the world’s history, and the American people mean to see to It that the machinery is operated to the limit,” writes lan Hay in America Comes Across. "Japan's unprovoked aggression has ensured that. It was a psychological blunder of the first magnitude, for it has sent President Roosevelt into action with a hundred and thirty million people at his back, united to a man. The outstanding' difficulty as always, in this land of individual ambition, is that, of effectual co-operation. Every little community here, every little group there, wants to run its own show. America, owing to its vast size, is a country of conflicting authorities. Beginning at the top of the scale, we behold the Federal Government at Washington. Washington might issue a standard code of civilian defence rules and set up a central authority to administer them; but this Washington will probably refrain from doing, for the simple reason that there are forty-eight States in the Union, and every State is a law, a very jealous law. unto itself, with its own Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives. ' They who stand forth the foremost in dan .er. for the community, have the respect of mankind.— Samuel Johnson. When a man tells me he is killing time. I sometimes remind him that time is killing him, -E. S. P. Haynes.