EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue IV, 23 January 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

It whs .sfter a z.ilgh:? fi "b:f mb' Ln- the v Eagt~HM of London. An A.R.P. Warden sap- a. hugbn.wd',- , wife- and their ‘.small boy, about ooven years old, leaving the wreck :of /their: former home ■ arid carrying" with them.the' rem** nants .of t‘.u.y. ger pitiful no ss^sslons« ' -Tho little boy was struggling •’ along with a,fu~gw parcel -nd biting his lip hard. - Tho.warden said to him “And- whr.-ji s your /ob ? Son ?", and tho boy' revil ed n To carry my parcel And not co cry"* ' ’ .... . ' " . v ■■ f v

And, after. al], that’s a -man-.- sine Job for? every one of us, and .is- '/ worth. i driving for - each man k carry his own burden end not to moan, not' tv . trouble ( others with vain complaint , about' what can Lt bo- cured, 1 < and must be endured* If wo only think of the people of London, of”' War* saw; of Rotterdam,- of al,*. O'.o",‘pxcd- per sedated and oppressed '-countrleg*. we- will realhmc that x mu burden, .not very- heavy in comparison with : . the burdens being .borno-'-pationbly by millions ; of otbsrs- True, Wvhvo: been ’ separated'from, those we loye, but it has not-yet been a long - separation, and we know they are hot ' starving but safe,, nob frightened but free, and we ourselves are clothed, fed, and paid, and er far at least have an ox* cel- ex prospect o. returning' home ’in tils future » Ro own burden is, in comparison with many otherreally only -tv amali-..-package- rubber :than>a. parcel* , Don? t lot us us mon be put to simo by. a small bov« “LET’S CARRY- OUR; PARCELS AND NOT CRY". ' .. A