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Sidney Blumenthal & Oo,, Inc.
Rocky Mount, C. December “ 1944
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A MESSAGE TO ALL FROM MRo SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL,
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL & COc, INC.
Earlier in this century, a Congressman from Texas had brief fame
because abusing his grammar, he flung at Congress the challenging quee-
noSr^WhSe a?f we at?" Because of its terseness, this expression has
^sma.ined an idiom of our American language*
Similarly, we can very well ask, "’ifhafs before us and what are we
after?"
Victory, a conquest of the devilish spirit^of our almost fiendish
®i!isray both in Europe and Japan, is our prime objecfelve* In the near
future w® will have eliminated the aroh malefactor, the miscreant jhose
theories of might over all right were ready to
flinging to principles of liberty and justice, to faith and ethics, to
kindliness and tolerance rather than cruelty and •oppress-.on.
FriT the "nth time in history, the right will again triumph ana
’lhdlS?e our faiths? Ie::t we mist beat dowa our orieu^l ea-my and
">mplete the reckoning, He hope it will oe soon,
won and the two behemoths are defeated and manacled, what taeni
We are all yearning for the day when you will come "►^ack, as no
'ioubt vou are yearning to return* A new worlo awaiting „
'®b8t b» larfelv created by yourself, and the new pace set by inventions
Contrived for war purposes and applied to peaceful ends
'^hder your own control and under your own guidance as free citisens of
vast country..
How wisely can we handle this task, and how can we
^0 the fruition of its finest possibilities? Our Government ^as made
f'lans to afford those .who have ambitions the greauesi.
®^uoat.ion and training fox every vsjreran when he returns
he may elect. You will be permitted to sexect your vocation or your
^Vocation, as long as they- lead you to a successful and useful, in any
a contented life.
Your Ingenuity derived from past experiences and ^4®
Conquering the new complexities, social as well as mechanical, will 4elp
you in solving the difficulties of our national life. It is not possible
^0 foresee all these. T^ie many plans that are being maos .
Mature of guesswork. They estimate conditions calculated to come,
yet certain, in ignorance of many of the irapsets of tlis bedlam create
the fields of battle and the destruction in foreign lands.
Your own sober .1adgm.ent, formulated in the fiery crucible of experience,'
be welcomed in grappling with this ‘new task of the -uture, Oountless