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1944 Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co Stamford CT Print Ad - The Man Who Wouldn\'t
The man who wouldn\'t...
HEAVY machine gun fire pinned down the platoon behind a ridge. Casualties began to mount among the crouching men. Convinced that waiting was too costly, the lieutenant told the sergeant to take ten men, make a run to the right, try to get on the flank of the pillbox firing at them... The sergeant, under fire for the first time, refused to move.
The lieutenant took out the ten men himself, silenced the pillbox. Three of the men did not come back.
THE MAN who wouldn\'t take rightful responsibility in combat held up the attack, the battle, the war and history. Made other men make greater sacrifice...
The delinquent soldier is so much an exception that he attracts attention. The delinquent civilian is less conspicuous
but noless dangerous, no less blameworthy.
The business man motivated by selfish advantage who aofferes merely by the letter of the law uses manpower or materials extravagantly, and is more liberal with the taxpayers\' money than his own... who does not burden himself with war work because his eye and effort are wholly on postwar competition or opportunities...
The worker who tries to get by with poor performance because he knows he\'s searce, thinks only of his weekly take-home needlessly shifts jobs, or takes days off when every day counts for so much who agitates unrest among his fellows
The malcontents and chiselers who claim extras from the ration boards, try to coax or bribe storekeepers, give support and encouragement to the black markets and illegal traffic...
The folks with more money than they know what to do with... but insist on doing something silly with it
as if the war The bellyachers, who act as were a private inconvenience.
The people who don\'t do anything, won\'t be bothered, just sit out the war...
THE sergeant suffered from cowardice more understandable than carelessness. Two days later, he begged to go on a dangerous mission, and didn\'t come back.
The delinquent civilian does not suffer fron exposure, publicity, or the moral indignation of others, and his life is not at stake. But sometime, soon or late, he must square himself with his conscience, his God, and the men who died.
When you remember the sergeant, you realize... how fortunate we are!
PITNEY-BOWES POSTAGE METER CO. STAMFORD, CONN.
Originators of Metered Mail, world\'s largest manufacturer of Postage Meters, which print postage for business mail were devoted to war production.
