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ruthles* savagery they are just two bewildered old peasants clasping hands in the corner of a countryschool house.. The ' second picture; showed a young mother, her first-born tightly clasped in her arms. Her husband was at the front, fighting to preserve a country for his baby. They were entitled to'be together, young, happy, proudly displaying the ■most wonderful baby in the world. Perhaps baby has no father- today, and a mother whose only incentive to live is her fierce devotion to baby.The third picture showed little children asleep on a bare schoolhouse floor. They were entitled to their own beds, tucked in by mothers hands. They had the right to awaken, glad-eyed, to a- new day, a. few irksome hours of' school, more hours of laughter- and play. Perhaps . some of them • would • have grown to make the world a kinder, better place. -That little fellow with tear-streaked cheeks might-have become a statesman, who loved his country more' than power. The dimpied little girl might have made millions happy with her charming stories.Singers. ■ Artists. Poets. Composers. Doctors. Scientists. Fathers. Mothers, Good, plain citizens, Today, where are they? Huddling in terror, cold, hungry, deprived of every happiness they had a right to as children. . Perhaps some are just cold little forms bathed in. their mothers* tears.• Just pictures. May they determine America to rid this country of those carrion who gorge on human misery in. their just for wealth and power.. May America never have picture* suoh as these!• Jennie M,. Barhojm. .
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Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Dec 13, 1939
Page 6
Full Page
Clipped by
Randy G.
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