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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL, UTAH MacArthur's Australian Campaign Heightens Spirit of All America NATIONAL AFFAIRS RtvitwtJ by CARTER FIELD t Attitude on 'Unified Command? . . . Sea Otter for Light Shipping Not Yet in Production Roosevelt J r (BcQ Syndicate ... s WOT Service., WASHINGTON. The President takes seriously the fact that under the Constitution he is commander-in-chie- f of the army and navy. It may be for that reason that he does not take kindly to the notion of a department of national defense, to include army, navy and air force, as advocated by Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri and others. The President's theory is that there is a "unified command" already, which is himself. Natural 3!M I I I ..J iA 21 Senator Clark ly ne is iainy well satisfied with i - i r- - JL advan General Douglas MacArthur A fighting General for fighting mad people it he . . , some-thin- But the President of the United States is elected for a fixed term. Nothing can be done no matter how inept he may prove himself as a director of military strategy. Indeed, it is most unlikely that his ABILITY as a strategist would be the issue even when he goes to the country, at the end of a four-yea- r term, in the midst of a war. Thus when Abraham Lincoln faced George B. McClellan in the 1864 election the main issue was not that McClellan, as a soldier, would make 4 a better war President than Lin- coln, as would have been a logical but enough campaign talking-poin- t, whether the war should be continued at all. The Pacifists of that day wanted to stop the war and have peace. As they proposed that McClellan, if elected, should make peace, naturally they, did not bother much to stress his qualifications as a military leader for continuing the war. On the President's side in the present controversy, it is unthinkable to have a war President who would not have the right to appoint whom he pleased as head of the "unified command" should there be one, just as he has the right and power now to name the secretaries of war and the navy and the generals and admirals who shall direct the high strategy. So the President "would not be divested of responsibility. Realizing which, the President prefers to operate without the added office of Unified Command. . k Small Ships Would Release Larger Ones for War Work you are going to see some real fighting. is what thousands of persons said, some of whom said it to you, when word was flashed from Aushave might tralia that General Douglas MacArthur was down there to assume the supreme United Nations command in that region. Ever since the war in the Pacific region began, the story of the ground warfare has been continually, and dishearteningly the same but with one exception. f Newspaper and radio accounts have related of continual retreats and, NOW finally, surrenders by the Allied armies. But the brilliant exception to all i this defensive warfare is and was the$ activity of General MacArthur, his that, "MacArthur is the man for aides, and his native and American the job." A student on his way to troops fighting on the Bataan pen- his class at university said that if insula. ,. ' anyone can successfully "Slap the Not only did MacArthur stop the Japs,'.'1 MacArthur is the one that Japs-an- d thereby causing the "com- can do it. A not too busy auto mander, Gen. Masahani Homma, to salesman said that the general's commit hara kiri but he also put appointment was the most importhrough two brilliant, strategical of- tant move since the United States fensives which prevented further was stabbed in the back. enemy advances at the time. Such opinions as these of Mr. and Reason for Australians' Respect. Mrs. America reflect it is almost Such immediate background of certain to say the opinion of this this brilliant general, this Number nation, and all Allied nations as a One officer of the United Nations, whole. Even in London, the newswas the cause for the increasing papers there, commenting on the clamor of the Australians to have first time that a foreign general has MacArthur come down there and taken command of defense in Brithelp them, with American, British, ish dominions, had nothing but encand optimistic Australian, and native soldiers, re- ouraging,-hopeful, sist the Japs in the last Pacific re- words. Fame After Career Ended. gion stand. So, after receiving orders on Washington's birthday from Fame came to General MacArthe President to go to Australia, thur after his career had ended I MacArthur made plans with his suc- For it was in 1935 that he retired cessor, Maj. Gen. Jonathan May-he- from the army after making a Wainwright,. a brilliant tacti- "name" for himself as officer of cian, for further defense at Bataan. World War I, and decorated for con'Mac's the Man.' spicuous courage. His decorations When a "roving reporter" for one are reportedly more numerous than' of the outstanding Midwest newspa- any other officer in the service. ' Back in 1903 he was graduated pers went out to interview pedestrians as to how they felt about the from military academy, heading his new shakeup in military control in class. Ever since then he has been the r Pacific region whereby General showing his fellow officers and his MacArthur was given complete mil- men under him that he is "one of itary control, the consensus of opin- the men" who knows how to fight. ion was, "Mac's the Man.". Son of a Civil war hero, Lieut. One fellow said that it was the Gen. Arthur MacArthur, General best news he heard since the U. S. Douglas went with his father as an entered the war. A housewife said aide when he went to Tokyo on a w IS- - ,4 t - . V . Jff , short-distan- ce Like Father, Like ?.. LP. HEIIEF NEWS THIS fo n mwm WEEK at A Coal and Electric Used Rang Vutmt wieetira la the wmt SltutTL fell neMchUracd. uaraateed. l t F. PARTON WXU Senric.) have mislaid We EW YORK. the name of the phUosopnei who said all adult nations wer they naa ax injEiauu (Consolidated Feature N nTAJN DTILITIES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Reconditioned Band Instrument at k.ZTT' nrieea Liberal trade. RRFei CO IS So Mala. Salt Lake Crt, alert sense 01 General Fought 4 historicity, W nr.? Commanded looking stu- - By 5 iZS mMta PT" O. C TANNER COMPANY ... a AM Br LEMUEL SOCIETY Hu dUawMk tell tOtm USED EQUIPMENT Presidents INTERMOUNTA1N MERCHANTS gjpfjj (Dealer (p Bankrupt Stock,) We kae and adl ail kind of buaineM fat and aqaipaaent. Casta reiritr. meat J!JT ofTioe cqaip H E. 4th So Salt Cite ly, backward as well as forward. takBrig. Gen. William H. Bisbee,oldesl U, the as this bow a day ing man in the new Who's Who in AmerOFFICE EQUIPMENT ica, suggests this salutary exercise. USED aeaki and chain, iW AND NEW He He was 102 last January 28. typewriter, addin inch's, safe, the and story in four wars, 8. U DESK EX., t W. Broad ray, SaBLaa fought of what he and his country have BEAUTY SCHOOL been through gives a hint that perhaps somebody smuggled a rabbit'f Ollkh fCHOOL Ol- BEAUTY CULTUM LarceM la the West U rears foot into that arcanum oi tne nauott ceMfol atwratioB. Modern, thorough, aru. al archives at Washington. Enroll anytime tieal Writ tor eaukm. Salt Lake City. o3 Filthv davs of war." the general W SouOi Main once wrote, "walking through creexf ORANGE CHECKER CAB CO. barelegged to save our tattered clothes." S PASSENGER CAN RIDE IN A CHECS. ER CAB FOR THE rttlCE OP ONa He enlisted in the Civil war COMFORT AND SAFETY. COUBIEOHi after BuU Run, when WashingDEI VERS. PHONE ton was somewhat less orderly squirrel-caga and rational than PERSONALS He knew not ony mud, IK. LEVI DELK. foot specialist, eaaaj, rags and tatters, but the stark callaM, ragwwn chih nails, boaioae, flat keL horrors of blood and hunger, weak arches corrected. Comaiete tr bath fact. SI M. S04 Felt Bloc BakL. weariness and desperation, and the maddening disorder of buBABY CHICKS TODAY reaucracy and graft in Washington. TURKEY POULTS TO ORDER For 25 years, after 1865, he fought COMPLETE LINE OF POULTS! EQUIPMENT Indians, along the trails out from 100 arrows Leavenworth and pulled Writ tar free Hteratar from the body of his fallen friend 09 for torture and one for a vita UTAH PIONEER HATCHERY spot an old Indian custom. In the SALT LA EI QTT, SO. STATE 8T. SS7 in the Philip Pangasinian province UTAH MURRAY 474 pines, he trailed guerrillas through PR 80CS jungle slime, and caught and hanged W.N.U. SALT UK Week No. 42 3 30 of them. That rounded out his four wars Civil, Indian, Spanish American and Philippine Insurreo - e. RAMSHAW'S I f ''- 'I ) - , - tion. In 1900 President Theodore Roose velt made him a brigadier general, and he retired the next year, tc coast along through serene and sun ny years in his native New England, at Brookline, Mass. He is a hand some, soldierly old on honored each birthgentleman, day by a representation from the war department at his party. JM He was born and reared in Mrs. Douglas MacArthur Woonsocket, R. I., and was a ft is now up to her husband . young merchant of Delaware, Ohio, when he answered Lincoln's call. In addition to Lineven soldier, cool, tempered, poised, coln, his army commissions admired by his staff and men, pre were signed by Presidents Johnto do a titanic despite job paring son, Cleveland, McKinley and heavy odds against it Theodore Roosevelt. of Even the general's 2,000 miles to Australia had a touch the Dutchman OUGO GROTIUS, of the dramatic to it. For the zone who laid the foundation for he officers and and his over which is now somewhat apologeticalaides flew in two planes, has whatknown as international law, been conceded as being the "hot ly backed down spot" of the southwest Pacific. This Like Grottus, Who a loton hard is the zone where both enemy and Allied planes are continually on the Never Quit Trying, andfastprinalert. Fighters, bombers, and in Dutchm Carry On! "Pies, in his terceptors, always ready for bat- but he never quit, trying. That was tle. When you look at a map and see the territory you will fully real- early in the Seventeenth century, ize that MacArthur has not lost The Dutch carried on from where he left off and any of his boldness. It is such dar- trade mark onpretty much put their international, law. and calm has all that skill, ing, put Premier Peter Gerbrandy. of the the confidence of the Allied nations Netherland government in exile, expeople directly on his shoulders, The Yanks, and Aussies, being what pounded and amplified Grotius, as of they are in temperament, and dis professor ofinternational law at the Amsterdam. He now University to as a for fight being ready position at all times, now have a man as says the Dutch not only will keen their leader they know will not fail on writing law but will keep on fighting the lawless, in their lowthem. lands home or in the Pacific island Congressmen Behind Him, Too. jungles. He is a devout Christian That this attitude even goes for who professes an unshakeable be officials ana congressmen m the na lief that the word, bravely defended, tion's capital is noted in the com Decomes flesh. ment of various congressmen on the The professor was never conday that MacArthur's safe arrival spicuous in affairs of state until was announced in a special official a year or two before the Nazis war department communique. Sen came. He sounded many warn Millard E. Tydings, (D., Md.) said ings oi irouoie ahead and when that Australia now has real leader it came, disclosed amazing caship . ; that he was very happy to know that MacArthur was down pacity for quick and'effective action, always a jump ahead of there where a man such as he is the supposedly practical men. needed. He pulled together the Reb. Joseph J. Mansfield. CD coalition government Texas) put in a comment which all and became the head of ten minAmericans fully understand. He istries, representing five closely-kn- it said that MacArthur is sure eninir parties He was the big to "raise hell" with the Japs prosurprise which bad times so viding we can keep him supplied often bring forth. with a continuous line of supplies He ana men. is no ascetic, but, instead House Minority Leader Jospnh w drinks good Holland gin and smokes Martin (R., Mass.), said he was good cigars, being a connoisseur of happy to hear of the famous sol- such commodities and a foe of sump--' dier's appointment. He further add tuary legislation. He is a plump y little man,' ed that such an aDoointment win agile, rosy, add to the confidence of the Ameri who likes to argue and philosophize and have a good time at one can people. The day that MacArthur's appoint and the same time. A pipe addict was reproved by a ment, and successful flirht to Am tralia was announced, the President critic. "Smoking a pipe will destroy your memory, turn you to in his press conference also had mediation rather than action, andr of words encouragement for tb make you altogether useless," he said. American people. He said that the "Can you imagine Adolf Hitler purpose of the transfer was not to smoking a pipe, fading the house in a crap game, or develop further defensive measnro fetching a but primarily, and definitely to "win swipe in the German equivalentlong of ine war." president Roosevelt said Sweet Adeline?" asked the at that conference that he felt, toe, "No, you can't. No that every American man and mm. ever started a an held the same admiration for the war and none ever will. Grim njhUng, brilliant general that he sadistic ascetics like Hitler start wars because they never had a held. time and want to get even." good mm Are Needed to Fill A Good Position white-bearde- d, Li 1 T aaaraaa bar" Wea streamlined Is jarickrr prepare yea t answer the kit aeawaa for aaaUSea help. Ssad far i rnferaaariosi and free catalog to?. NEW DAT AND NIGHT CLASSES START MONDAY. AB Henager's Business a College Salt Laksdw K. Broadway , . air-flig- ht . - . Information as to what has hapi A pened to the Sea Otter is an experir-- ; , n ence as human as a man's liking to wear old clothes, or a woman wanting a new hat. It is the same type of tiling which leads a city man, who has kept a few chickens in his back yard, to quit his job and start trying to make his living with a chicken farm. Here was a very good idea for V A H small craft, to supply a crying need for coastwise and i water transportation, and which would release regular ships now in that sort of service for more important war work. So the naval designers get hold of it, and immediately begin to Since General MacArthur has taken his new command in Australia Improve it. They saw how they to stop, and them push back, the Japanese drive, Maj. Gen. Jonathan M. could make the sea otters bigWainwright (left), shown talking with Gen. MacArthur, has been apger, make them carry more. pointed to the command of the forees that outfought, despite 20 to 1 They began to think about using them in the transatlantic war odds, the Jap forces on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippine Islands. snpplies ferry service. As a result the Idea, very good for its original purposes, has gotten noSon where. Naturally, with the enlargement of the proposed ships, they drew more water. That made them, General Douglas MacArthur, and Both father and son, Arthur and as the President pointed out, unavailable for the sort of ports for his deceased father, Lieut Gen. Ar- Douglas MacArthur, showed great which they had originally been de thur MacArthur. experienced mili-- strategical talent One of the falives exceedingly interesting ther's Civil war tactics of battle signed. Also, wiui the added notion ttary of their crossing the Atlantic, or Because ox inetr striking similarity eventnaUy became a war departas available information proves. ment standard officer examination. ram making similar lone vova Lieut Gen. Arthur MacArthur, The son's strategy in the the question of danger if sufficient like his son, Douglas, was advanced pines la wen known to all Philipsupplies of gasoline were taken. newspa' : over the heads of many older off- per readers, who have been So we have no sea otters I folicers to more hnportabt posts. lowing his brilliant leadership. TPS 1 at On three difmission in 1905-0ferent occasions he saw extended army service in the Philippines. In 1935 he went to Manila as the commonwealth's president, Manuel Quezon's military adviser. That his advisory capacity to President Quezon was of a successful nature is now seen in the successful manner in which American troops, Philippine scout professionals, and Filipino reservists, under his command, fought. So, at the age of 50, fter many years of active service,, it looked as though General MacArthur's military life was at an end. It seemed that he was then destined for obscurity after being chief of staff for five years. But, it has often been stated, that it is the seemingly little incidents in a person's life which eventually develop into significant, extremely important matters. What would have happened had MacArthur, upon being "retired," not been sent to the Philippines to shape up a military force there is impossible to say. Once again, MacArthur's life Is showing that faet is oftentimes more interesting than fiction. Here, in MacArthur, yon see a story book - - WHO'S Mac-Arthu- 6. ' President: Military Strategist - r, Arthur Little son of General and Mrs. MacArthur, is starting early in a possible war career. Besidesa as having a 'famous general father, Arthur's grandfather, be Civil war veteran after whom is named, commanded a Manila brigade in 1898 when U. S. forces captured that city. When war broke out in the Philippines little Arthur and his mother, the former Miss Jean Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., were reported safe on the island. The next word that came through as to their whereabouts was when their arrival in Australia with the' general and his staff was announced. four-year-o- ld 4 that, and considers the insertion of another executive between the present organizations and himsell jusi me aaaiuon that much un-- t necessarv oreani- zation, with no tages to be had for the U. S. There is much to be said for his g But there is also position. to be said against it, though there is nothing new on either side of the argument. The sharpest objection lies in our own form of government. Conceivably a man might make a fine President in all other respects, but not be a military genius. It is not fashionable to belittle Abraham Lincoln, or even to hint that he was not the essence of perfection in evJ ery respect. However, the fact reof mains that as commander-in-chie- f the armed forces of the Union he blundered around for practically the first three years of the war, try-- , ing one general after another until in Grant, Sherman and Sheridan he found the right prescription. Future General?? away go conns Pain Koeaiquick, oorna speedily remared when you use thin, soothing, cushioning Dr. Scholia Kino-padTry them I More Raleigh Jingle Raleigh Cigarettes are again big offering liberal prizes in a this jingle contest to be run in paper. One hundred and each prizes will be awarded week. 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