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“Jutf PicturedTo ih'' Euitor of The SentinelI saw news pictures taken in Finland, pictures that made if* feel ashamed to belong to a race that calls itself human. They, weren't acenes of ruthless bombings or dead-strewn battlefield*. Simple picture* they were, telling stories better than any tongue or pen. Ju*t pictures of peasants evacuated at less than an hour j notice from village* bordering Ru»i*.TSe first showed an old peasant and hi* wife sitting in a comer of a country achoolhouar, He held ha* thin, toil-wont hand protectingly in his own arork-hardened one. Their faces bore e*pees*kma of bewilderment and patient fortitude They had to flee the home In which they had lived nearly all their live*For years he had indutfrpouely tilled fields that gave auch meager returns for heeri-breaking labor. He had done It gladly, proudly, for hi* gentle wife, duriy *** »*d clear-eyed daughters She had done all the chores of an bumble home and raised a family «f Ood-leering riti-aena Beery Sunday they had grew to church to npna gratitude far every snail Idfing- How they entitled to peace He had etvry right to sit dreamily smnttinc at his door, contentedly watching his grand-children play.She had • right to her iwcfcar, lowing arm anwmd a child wide* eyed a« the h inninr of gnadms's •■ft nstca rebtftag rite Mart* mi lsg—lt;i af her tin doggy. 11 had a fVmWi rnmimmOm She that)They dtdri’t want much, pan the right to He* and tie among those dmnat to tla*. AR tfca* they wit at*i«d ta, tut tacmaa* «f aua an*
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Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Dec 13, 1939
Page 6
Full Page
Clipped by
Randy G.
NA, 02 Jan 2024
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