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THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1943 _
With confidence in our armed
forces — with the unbounding de
termination of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help us God. _Roog(lvelt.,i War Message
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu
tion of the war to complete vic
tory. ____
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
May Easter joys all be so true
And bring such happiness to you
That they will leave when they depart,
Precious keepsakes in your heart.
From “Scrapbook”
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Forty Years Of Service
It was forty years ago this month that a
group of publishers in southern states gath
ered in Atlanta and organized the Southern
Newspaper Publishers Association. Of that
group only two survive. They are Victor H.
Hanson of Birmingham and James J. Smith
at present on the staff of the Florida Times
Union of Jacksonville. Among those who have
passed on, whose names are associated with
the accomplishments and traditions of journal
ism south of the Mason and Dixon line are
Clark Howell, Frank P. Glass, H. H. Cababiss,
Robert Ewing, D. A. Tomkins, J. C. Hemphill,
E. M. Foster, T. T. Stockton, A. R. Holderby.
Wherever the newspapermen gather in Dixie
and. as their custom is when outsiders are
absent, talk over the exploits of the men who
brought their profession out of the doldrums
following the War Between the States the
effects of which lingered oppressively for a
generation after its close—these names are
sure to hold the admiring attention of all
present.
During the four decades of the Association,
with its changing membership and the swift
changes in the business it watches over, tre
mendous strides have been made in the
South’s agriculture and industry, most of
which may be traced directly to its foresight,
insight and constructive planning and its alert
ness to economic threats in the Congress and
financial circles antagonistic to the South. In
the last analysis, Southern progress is as
much obligated to the consistent and per
sistent honesty of intention and integrity of
purpose of the newspapers in the region as
to any agency of progress.
It is fair to think that but for this associ
ation of newspaper publishers and the clear
thinking of its leadership, Dixie would not
»ow find so many of the changes during forty
years to its advantage as they have turned
out to be.
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Bless His Heart!
Prentiss M. Brown has not only escaped
the baneful influence of bureaucracy. He is
even trying to reform it.
This decision to conduct the next ration
registration by mail is a case in point. His
predecessor, Leon Henderson, devoted him
self to creating all the trouble he could for
the public. When time came to apply for
ration cards or books he enlisted school teach
ers everywhere to list applications, a job they
must do in addition to their class room duties
without pay and scant recognition.
Now, Mr. Brown, still clinging to his human
sympathies despite his affiliations, proposes
to have the post office distribute applications
for Ration Book No. 3 next month, which ap
plicants may place in the mails and if prop
erly filled out receive their books by the
same method, without shouting or tumult,
without annoyance or confusion, without a
etrain upon teachers or the nervous systems
of the people.
Like Abou ben Adhem, may Mfc tribe in
cr^se at Washington. ^ ]
Roosevelt And Camacho
It must be assumed that economic and
financial differences which so long disturbed
our relations with Mexico are approaching
satisfactory settlement. Elfce it would be dif
ficult to account for President Roosevelt’s
journey to that country or his felicitations
to President Camacho in his radio broadcast
from Monterrey, when the two Chief Execu
tives metaphorically scratched each other’s
back, as Josh Billings urged an editor to do
for him when he was hunting a job.
United States relations with Mexico, which
have been growing closer and friendlier ever
since General Camacho became president of
the land.south of the Rio Grande, were pretty
well cemented when the Axis threat of world
domination crystallized at Pearl Harbor. Mex
ico City was quick to make common cause
against a common enemy, and while it is not
probable that Mexico will share the battle
she is doing well in sharing the economic
burden of war.
Furthermore, her open support of the Al
lied cause and vigorous crusade against Axis
agents has checked Hitler’s propaganda and
sabotage campaigns in the Americas—a very
different situation from 1914-18 when the Ger
mans maintained spy headquarters in Mexico
City and -engineered many depredations in
this country from that office.
Because of this changed attitude, and be
cause there are doubtless many problems con
fronting the United States and Mexico jointly,
which concern the war and the era of peace
to follow, President Roosevelt’s conferences
with President Camacho serve a good pur
pose. If they complete a settlement for Amer
ican oil properties which were expropriated,
and Mexican oil pours into this country to
the limit of production less only Mexico’s own
requirements, they will have been well worth
while.
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Vacation Travel
The Office of War Transportation has issued
valuable suggestions for vacationists. A sig
nificant feature of its bulletin is that no ref
erence is made to junketing in the family
bus. That is out for the duration, unless oil
and rubber production should reach unantici
pated volume.
The bulletin limits its advice solely to train
patronage and discourages long trips. It is
suggested that persons able to take time off
this summer study this excerpt, and observe
its recommendations:
Vacation near home. Once you reach
your destination, plan to stay there with
out taking side excursions.
Plan to leave and return in the middle
of the week when travel is less heavy.
Army leaved are being scheduled in this
way whenever possible, and civilians have
been asked to follow the lead.
Forget about week-end trips entirely.
Short, three-day Army passes are reserved
for week-ends to avoid interference with
training. Leave room for the soldier get
ting a quick glimpse of his home town
over a week-end.
If travel to the vacation spot is long
enough to cover meal periods, take box
lunches with you. Overcrowded and un
derstaffed diners must feed hundreds of
travelers more important than vacation
ers.
If the family is spending the Summer
months at a near-by resort, warn working
members and visitors that commutation
may be difficult. Latest indications are
that there will be very little additional
rail service to resort areas for the dura
tion.
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Increased Bond Sales
The war bond campaign in Wilmington is
progressing admirably. But this does not
mean th»t participation in purchases may
slow down without reflection upon the com
munity and all its people. Rather, it can
and should be an inspiration for larger sales
and a broader basis of purchase.
The full tabulation of individuals and firms
thus far enrolled is not available, but it is
believed that one class of potential purchasers
is not represented as it might be. Many busi
ness firms maintain branch offices in Wil
mington. It is felt that if they permitted their
local agents to buy bonds in the company
name they would be doing a fine thing for
the city from which they derive a part of
their aggregate revenue.
Maybe some of them have done this. Others
that have not are encouraged to do so.
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American Air Power
As the battle situation in Tunisia seems to
be shaping, the final land blow will be deliv
ered by the British 8th and 1st. Armies, with
the American air force completely dominat
ing the skies.
It is not that American land forces have
not met the test of combat satisfactorily.
General Eisenhower has set the seal of his
approval on their participation in the fighting,
thus discounting the adverse opinion that fol
lowed initial reverses. While they have been
quick to profit by experience they lack the
unmbers necessary to carry the chief burden
of the final coup.
But in the air they are superb. This is freely
conceded in all quarters. The proof is of
fered by the destruction they have wrought
upon enemy air transport and harbor facilities
at Tunis and Bizerte. It is not alone upon
the British Mediterranean fleet that the Allies
will depend to prevent the escape of any
large number of Hitler’s troops, when the
end comes, but upon the American air force
as well.
This, in conjunction with the performance
of our fliers in the Pacific, is significant.
But for the umbrella General MacArthur has
spread over ,the southwest Pacific it is fair
to believe that the Japanese would have added
materially to their conquests and increased
their strength so greatly as to place a doubt
upon an Allied victory in that vast arena.
The war cannot be won by air power but
by the concerted effort of all branches of
service. But it becomes apparent, with each
success, that the American air force will play
a vital role in the ultimate triumph over the
Axis.
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An Anomolous Situation
When the President and the Vice President
are simultaneously out of the country, the
Secretary of State becomes the high official.
Were both the President and Vice President
to die or resign or be removed, the Secretary
of State would be interim President in fact.
As it is now, Secretary Hull is and is not
President of the United States, an anomolous
situation that could exist only in such a re
public as ours. Without disrespect, it may
be noted that under identical conditions in
most of the other American Republics a revo
lution would break out and a change of regime
immediately follow.
If our memory is reliable, the last time
an American Secretary of State was end was
not President came in the administration of
Woodrow Wilson when William Jennings
Bryan headed the State Department. Failing
so often to be elected President he neverthe
less held (or didn’t hold) the office for a day.
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Step Up, Gentlemen
Wanted: two men of independent means
with no private business commitments or en
gagements; with patience unlimited and wis
dom above Solomon’s; who will work for
nothing, never get ruffled or use profanity;
who are natural lie detectors, untiring and
always ‘‘on call”. Apply local draft board.
Fair Enough
(Editor's Note.—The Stir end the Newa accepts no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler,
ind often disagree with them as much as many of
nis readers. His articles serve the good purpose of
making people think.
by WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK.—Two generals of the quarter
master department have admitted recently
that there has been waste of food in Army
messes and, on the basis of a recent visit to
Camp Nameless in the status of guest, I will
undertake to corroborate them. The name
and location of the camp I cannot mention
lest I violate hospitality but my host of the
occasion has said he does not object to a dis
cussion of the shocking waste of fine food
which we saw there. There were, I should
say, about 200 soldiers in the mess, served
by waiters who were enlisted men. and the
meal consisted of pot roast, string beans,
creamed peas, mashed potatoes, cole-slaw,
milk, coffee and cocoanut custard pudding
There was much more than plenty for all
hands, most of whom had high-power appe
tites and each man had about a quart of
milk. My young friends at the table said
they often had steaks and that they had seen
some waste of excellent beef in a section of
the country where the civilians found it al
most impossible to get any and where the
little they could get was scrawny, stringly,
juice less meat with no more flavor than a
boiled bathmat. However, such waste of steak
consisted mainly of plate-leavings which is
to say that no whole steaks were thrown
away, untouched and possibly this is an un
avoidable loss although civilian authorities
have been raising quite a fuss with restau
rants for over-serving and with the guests
themselves for failure to eat everything set
before them and demanding smaller portions.
There were considerable leavings on the
plates of the soldiers in this mess on this oc
casion which my host said was typical, but
that was a trivial waste by comparison with
the wanton destruction which occurred as the
waiteis advanced along the aisle between the
two rows of tables after the meal, dumping
huge quantities of untouched food from the
serving uuwis uuo garoage cans wnicn rney
shoveci along before them. On each table
there were two or three large bowls at least
half full of mashed potatoes above and be
yond requirements of the diners, all made
with rich milk and first class blitter and all
that was thrown into the cans along with
large quantities of string beans, creamed peas,
slaw and custard and many stacks of a dozen
or so slices of fine white bread which, surely
was not contaminated and would not have
spoiled if returned to the bread box for the
next meal. The only meat that I saw thrown
away was that which was left on the plates,
the surplus on the platters apparently being
returned to the kitchen possibly to be made
into hash, although I am not sure it was
so used. I just observed that it was not
heaved into the garbage along with the other
untouched food which could have fed a con
siderable number of civilians without depriv
ing the soldiers.
The soldiers, themselves, were conscious of
this waste and deplored it although not. of
course, to the extent of complaining for. after
all, the camp management was none of their
business and suggestions might have been
resented by their officers. They said, more
over, that they had seen similar waste on
other posts and that the only effort at con
servation which they had observed had been
a rule in one place which required each man
to help himself to no more than he could eat.
If he left food on his plate he invited a mild
form of punishment.
me noncom in command ot tne prepara
tion and serving of the meals said that all
opened but unfinished bottles of milk were
emptied into containers. This milk was used
for cooking but that,* and the surplus beef
and the butter seemed to be the only salvage.
The rest of the overset food was gathered
at a central point with the garbage from
other messes on the post and carried away
by a contractor to be fed to the pigs on
neighboring farms, Great pitchers of coffee
were poured away.
There may have been a few absentees from
this meal but if so they were not enough to
justify the Army excuse recently heard that
waste is caused by the practice of cooking
for the full strength of a command rather
than foi the number actually on hand. It was
a flag!ant case of reckless mismanagement
and in a region where the Army’s food comes
off the top of the whole regional supply and
comes off first, leaving the civilians to shop
for and worry over a very insufficient re
mainder.
I am sorry not to be able, to identify the
post and unit but perhaps it will be just as
well if each command which is throwing to
the swine good food which civilians are doing
without will take this description and criti
cism to itself and act accordingly.
“ORDER OF THE BATH”
MOM1
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INSIDE WASHINGTON
By CHARLES P. STEWART
If ever there was a crazy boom
town in modern history it is pres
ent-day Washington.
I once lived “out west,” when
it was growing up. It grew too
rapidly for comfort. Accommoda
tions were inadequate. Visitors had
to sleep on floors, with blankets
over them. Separate rooms were
lacking, but, if you would bunk in,
you' could get a ceiling over you.
There was chow enough. Provided
the railroads couldn’t accommo
date you, you could get a stage
coach. I once attended a session
of the South Dakota legislature,
where there wasn’t hotel accom
modation, but they provided us
with tents. It was zero weather.
However, nobody hollered. It
wasn’t overly tony, but it was
common to all of us. It wasn’t
disgraceful to exist like a hobo.
Nearly all of us did it. I had a
tent, for awhile, adjoining a lieu
tenant governor’s.
You can’t do this in today's
Washington, though. I do fairly
well, having a mortgaged shack
out in the suburbs, clear beyond
the District of Columbia. I ac
quired it before the rush started.
But I have had multimillionaires
drift in of late, and thankful to
accept the humble one-apartment
cubbyhole I am able to offer to
them, provided I didn’t have too
many previous applicants.
It isn’t Washington alone that’s
bulging. The congestion slops over
into adjoining Virginia and Mary
land—yes, and Jersey and more
distant areas.
Illustratively, take my uuie ourg
of Alexandria—a mere hamlet un
til the current influx started. Right
on the Virginia side of the Poto
mac (out in the country until com
paratively a few days ago) is the
War department’s Pentagon, the
world’s largest office building. It
is workers’ headquarters for thou
sands and thousands—a big city,
all by its lonesome.
The entire region is similarly
infested.
What it does to transportation
is a plenty.
The lack of desk space and om
nibus standing room, though, isn’t
what plays essential hades.
There is an urgent requirement
for living space.
For instance. Washington, hav
ing grown so fast hitherto, has not
coverage for its dwellers. It al
ways has been a “slum city.” It
is full of fire risks. Every little
while one of them is realized and
a few folk are burned to death.
Naturally that causes a yowl and
a demand for regulation. But it
CAN’T be regulated; new build
ing can’t be dictated fast enough.
So we keep on consuming them.
bating places ao nox wanx your
business. They not only don’t want
your fair proportion of “points”;
they don’t want ANY. You are
lucky to eet a sufficiency to meet
the simple “points” of nature.
It just is a local famine. If you
get your stuff, you are welcome
to get out and eat it on the curb
stone. Inside there aren’t seats
for you.
I don’t think the pressure is na
tional: I think it’s Washingtonian.
What hurts is that certain class
es are privileged.
Officialdom is taken care of.
As you might expect, that kind
Df family get privileges.
So does diplomacy.
Legations and embassies are fed
until they can’t rest. I have heard
them discussing it. They say,
“How can their own countries be
so skimped, when, at home, they
are starving?”
In general, our public outfits are
taken care of amply.
They get plenty to eat and more,
I too.
So do our diplomats.
That’s the trouble with Wash
ington. It has been provided for
in advance.
Imagine a diplomatic headquar
ters shy on rooms and feed!
Did I ever hear of one of them
being chased out into Virginia or
Maryland? Not so you could no
tice it!
Well, it is a war town.
And it is worse than a boom
town.
A boom town is progressive into
something better. A war boom
town! Murder!
I am trying to get away from
a boom town.
This is it—Washington
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You’re
Telling Me
FACTOGRAPHS says the white
termite queen lays 10,000,000 eggs
a year. There’s an item farmers
might clip out and paste up in
their hen houses.
! ! !
A cookery item tells how to
make chicken feed edible. No,
thanks, we'll stick to horseburger.
it;
We won’t argue the merits of
rocking chair philosophy or horse
and buggy ideas, but we sure
could use some palm leaf fan
weather.
; ; ;
Benjamin Franklin, according to
an historian, couldn’t keep his
bank balance straight. Gosh, the
great preacher of superthrift was
human after all!
! ! !
The hide of a walrus is said to
be an inch thick. If he could only
talk—what a politician he’d make.
! ! !
After the war, we read, boats
may be made of transparent plas
tic. Won’t work. The fish will be
able to spot us baiting the hook.
; ; ;
A magazine declares Americans
spend $200,000,000 yearly to have
the future foretold. Why not spend
that on War Bonds—and INSURE
the FUTURE!
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FOR LONG FIFE
The way to live a long time,
says an old gentleman in Chicago
who is 107, is to retire at 100.
Yes. fellows who stick to their
jobs until they are past 90 are
apt to work themselves to death.
—Roanoke (Va.l Times.
Civilian Defense
Timetable
BASIC TRAINING COURSES
New Hanover High School, room
109 at 8 p.m.
FIRE DEFENSE A
Monday, May 3 and every two
weeks thereafter.
GENERAL COURSE
Tuesday, May 4 and every two
weeks thereafter.
GAS DEFENSE B
Wednesday, May 5 and every
two weeks thereafter.
SPECIAL COURSES
Auxiliary Police course, Wed
nesday nights, at Trailer Camp
Office. Sgt. Thomas B. Hughes, in
structor.
If you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report it
promptly to:
Wilmington Police, 5244.
Wrightsville Beach Police, 7504.
Carolina Beach Police, 2231
Carolina Beach Clerk, 2001.
Captain of the Port, 2-2278.
County Defense Council. 3123.
Sheriff, 4252.
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As Others Say It
ON, WISCONSIN!
Wisconsin can make Swiss
cheese or a reasonable facsimile
thereof. And it has built a sub
marine. Can Switzerland do that?
—H. V. Wade in the Detroit News.
ABOUT COFFEE
News about coffee shows that
Brazil unloads its surplus on the
United States. As a matter of
fact the United States is buying
the surplus of their chief crops
from all Latin-American reoublics,
thus serving lend-lease and boost
ing the Good Neighbor idea. The
indications are that there is plenty
of coffee in Brazil and other Latin
American countries, but how to
get it into your own cups is quite
a different matter—too intricate in
ration’'’-'- d-tails to explain. — Ra
leigh Times.
THE OLD TROOPER
In the theaters of war, much
that is interesting and perhaps
prophetic now goes on. In lively
Tunisia the old trouper, Rommel,
is bringing back the one - night
stand. — Richmond (Va.) Times
Dispatch.
The Literary Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
“The Complete Life/’ by John
Erskine; (Messner: S3).
Urbane is the word for John
Erskine. He is, probably, as good
an example of the culture to be
produced in a city dweller by ap
plication to the things readily at
hand as we have living today. As
far as I know, he has never tried
very hard to live outside New
York, so that what he has to say
in “The Complete Life” must be
read with a reservation in mind.
He really means “The Complete
City Life.” v
Take, for example, the headings
of his chapters—they actually are
a series of connected essays dove
tailed into a book. Mr. Erskine
begins (after a general introduc
tion) with a chapter on reading
and writing. The next division is
“Music and Dancing,” and the
third takes up painting, sculpture
and architecture.
“The Intimate Crafts” come
next, and these are somewhat cu
rious as Mr. Erskine lists them:
carpentering, gardening and cook
ing. From this chapter onward
the book becomes more general.
The author writes about conver
sation, manners/ foreigners, reli
gion, politics, love, marriage (in
separate chapters) how to be a
parent (a little less general in
character), and lastly there is a
dissertation on the self-made man.
So much for the scope of the
project. Mr. Erskine is a teacher,
a novelist, a pianist, a critic, a
lecturer, and for a time he was
also an executive of sorts at the
Juilliard School of Music. He is
doubtless most successful as a
teacher, and least so as a prac
tising musician, although his feel
ing for that art is considerable
and has been useful to him. Per
haps because all these interests
are indoor interests. Mr. Erskine
has also done a good deal of what
one might call just living. He has
liked people and they have liked
him.
And this gets us back to the
new book and its chief value.
This is to let air into several sub
jects that are almost hermetically
sealed, so far as the general pub
lic is concerned. Most of Mr.
Erskine’s life is city life, but it
has been lived in comparatively
lofty apartments, where the view
covers more than a New York
backyard filled with the neigh
bors’ tin cans.
Interpreting
The War
By GLENN BABB
Hitler obviously j8 Using
weeks that Rommel and von k
nim are buying for him in Tun;J'
to muster another tremendoT
army, and the belief is gro„,v
that he will use the best Part
it for a third desperate attend
to crush Russian resistance befo
the western Allies land in EUrop(
Diplomats in Switzerland with Bai
kan connections say he is seeing
a striking force of 5,000,000 me,
with an offensive against the Bed
army the first item on the agenda
If this is his plan, it means that
the fuehrer is taking the gamble
that there will be no major jm-a.
sion of the continent until late'
summer. He can hardly hope that
a few weeks will suffice to dis"
pose of the Soviet armies which
defeated him so thoroughly w
winter, wiping out all his 194-1
gains and some of those of 1941'
But he is confronted by desperate
choices. Only by bringing off some
long-chance adventure, like knock,
ing out the Red army, bottling up
the western end of the Mediter
ranean by a thrust through Spain
or a successful invasion of Britain
—can he hope to alter the trend
of the war which is turning so
inexorably against him.
Preparation for the summers
climactic battles explains the taw
dry procession of the satellites
through the fuehrer's headquarters
which apparently is near an end,
Boris of Bulgaria. Mussolini of
Italy, Antonescu of Rumania, Hoi
thy of Hungary and Quisling, the
Norwegian who has given the
world a synonym for shame, have
received their orders. The Slovak
president and Croatian puppet arc
under summons, perhaps already
in Germany. Collaborators from
conquered Greece, the Low Coun
tries and France may bring up
the rear.
What tasks have been assigned
this sorry company will be dis
closed only as the battle unfolds,
but experience and the logic of his
situation must suggest strongly to
Hitler that for another offensive
in Russia he will have to rely on
the flower of his own German
army. His allies, especially the
Italians, Rumanians and Hungari
ans, terribly mauled in the win
ter campaign, obviously have lit
tle stomach for going through the
meat grinder again. Therefore,
they may provide most of the
armies for defense of Europes
southern coasts and suppressing
revolt in the rear, at least until
such time as the Americans and
British leap the Mediterranean and
challenge Hitler to produce the
best he has to oppose them.
The Russians have no illusions
about the coming summer; they
are preparing for another terrible
ordeal. The western allies are an
ticipating it also; aid to Russia
in the form of weapons and sup
plies will form a major part of
their war effort even while they
are straining with every resource
to produce the only form of help
that will really satisfy the Rus
sians or themselves, the second
front in Europe. Ambassador Mai
sky in London gave a tactful re
minder earlier this week that the
second front continues a burning
issue. ‘‘The Red army and the
whole Soviet people expect that in
the military campaigns of this
year the western allies will pull
their full weight in the common
struggle,” he said.
It may be we already are wit
nessing the prelude to the great
eastern battles of 1943. The weight
of the fighting has shifted from
the Smolensk front and the
Ukraine to the western Caucasus.
There the thaws appear to be dry
ing and the Germans are battling
desperately to hold their small
bridgehead around Novorossisk.
while the Russians are trying to
throw them back across the Kerch
strait and blast a way for them
selves into the Crimea. It will be
recalled that the 1942 campaign
was opened in approximately the
same region when the Germans
on May 8 opened their offensive
to clear the Crimea. That date
is little more than a fortnight oft:
the spring lull in Russia probab'"
is nearly over.
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Daily Prayer
FOR REFUGEES
In all our thinking and praying,
O Lord over all, we would ht"1'
the services of our service men,
and of our behind-the-lines work
ers, with the desperate needs oi
the millions of our fellows in *n
eign lands who are ground ce
neath the heel of pagan tyranny.
The multitude of the dead are
with Thee, and Thou hast declar
led, "Vengeance is mine; I wlU
repay.” But the starvin'1', th" s (
the homeless are looking to tr.e
victory of our arms for delive
ance. O Compassionate Father,
speed the day when peace vnu
bring succor to those who sutler
so sorely. May no selfish slacK ^
ism on our part retard the com
ing of help to the needy. By m
Spirit, fire the hearts of our figm;
ers and workers, that they
know themselves to be follow. -
in the train of Christ, as saviour
of mankind. In His name '■
pray. Amen.—W.T.E.
MUST BE AN ACE
A single day’s developments
have shown that the President
order to "hold the line” must cov
er the whole "line.” In the eaihr
metaphor, if ceilings are imposea
on any major items of the <°
of living, they must be on all.—
Richmond (Va.) News-Leader.