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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION "-- Governments' Philosophy Set Forth in New Fantasy Antoine de Saint-Exupery- 's Delightful Fairy Story, "The Little Prince," Holds More Than Artistry for Adult and Child Alike. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator, ' r . w y I --Sam.a hundred thousand other little foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in the whole world. To you, I shall be unique in the whole world." "I am beginning to understand," said the Little Prince, "there is a flower ... I think she has tamed me." "If you tame me," the fox went on, "it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be dif-ferent from all others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me like music out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder. I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The grain fields say nothing to me and that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me. The grain which is also golden will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat ..." The fox gazed at the Little Prince for a long time. "Please tame.me," he said: "I want to very much," said the Little Prince, "but I haven't much time, I have friends to dis-cover and a great many things' to understand." "One only understands the things one tames," said the fox, "men have no more time to understand any-thing. They buy things already made at the shops but there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ..." And so the Little Prince did, and another day when he came back, the fox said: "It would have been better if you had come back at the same hour. If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel" happier and happier as the hour advances.' At four o'clock, I shall already be wor-rying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am. But if you come just anytime, I shall nev-er know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you." But finally, the Little Prince had to go. "Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." Source of Comfort "It is your own fault," said the Little Prince, "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you." "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "Then it has done you no good at all." "It has done me good," said the fox, "be-cause of the color of the wheat fields." And there, I think, perhaps some of you may find comfort in the memories that come from the wheat fields, for the common and the beau-tiful things that remind you of some-one from whom, perhaps this war ' has parted you. That is only a flash I have given you of the story of "The Little WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. On a June day, when a gentle breeze brought the .scent of n grass in through the White House windows, President Roosevelt sat at his desk and read slowly to a group of correspondents from a typewritten sheet. It wasn't a for-mal document but it was an historic one its purpose was to remind the Italian people that the military cam-paign against them which had just scored another Allied victory, Pan-telleria, was the result of the mis-conduct of their rulers. The message has been variously Interpreted since, but to me, it con-tained one significant point the re-minder of the coming birth of a new nation; the new Italy which will emerge when the chains of arro-gance and brute aggression which bind her are broken. There has been much talk about post-wa- r po-licing of the world; little thought of the philosophy which will underlie the forms which the reborn governments must follow. To me, such a philosophy is set forth in a work of pure fantasy. A hopeful note for nations and men is sounded in this delightful fairy tale by an author who found spiritual rebirth in the tragedy of the fall of his own nation. I refer to Antoine de y and his latest work, "The Lit-tle Prince." Those who have read his "Night Flight," "Wind, Sand and Stars" and "Flight to Arras" are not sur-prised that he could create a fairy tale as delicate as this. Reviewers have disagreed as to whether it is for children or for adults. I believe it is for both, like "Alie in Wonder-land." But the adult will find in "The Little Prince" something more than artistry and the children will sense that, too, I think. y is a brilliant avia-tor who built up night flying for the French airlines in South America. He fought against the Germans "Flight to Arras" is the remarkable book which tells of that-- experience. He is now back with the French army in Africa, scene of the open-ing of "The Little Prince." The Prince's S'tory "Six years ago," the author says, "I made a forced landing in the Sahara alone, a thousand miles from help, and faced the necessity of re-pairing my motor by myself within the number of days my drinking water would last. The first morn-ing, I was awakened by a deter-mined but gentle voice which said: 'If you please, draw me a sheep.' " So Exupery learned the story of how the Little Prince had found out what is really important in life. The Little Prince is at once a deli-cate wisp of fancy, something so sheer that at. moments he seems to float like a piece of thistledown be-fore your imagination again, he. has all the reality of truth itself, he is eternal childhood, all that is gen-tle, and confiding and lovable, with the faint shadow of sorrow on his winsome face, he is the tug at your heartstrings that comes when youth looks at you in wide-eye- d confi-dence, reaches up to take your hand the same reminiscent tug when you look back and see the surprised and longing sorrow in the eyes of your own lost youth. The Little Prince lived far away, It seems, on a tiny planet with three volcanoes so small that he cooked his breakfast on one of them. A flower came to his planet and the Little Prince loved her and cared for her but he couldn't understand her and so he left to try to find out why. He finally reached the earth, and here the fox taught him. The Little Prince had never seen a fox "Come and play with me," he said,' "I am so unhappy." "I cannot play with you," the fox said, "I am not tamed." The Little Prince did not understand. He told the fox that ho was looking for friends and asked him what tame meant. Philosophy of d Fox "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox, "it means to estab-lish ties . . .to me, you are still nothing but a little boy who is just like a hundred other little boys. And I have no need of you. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a .Prince ' which is not written for children only but for those who have the faith of little children and the understanding to see how tragedy can bring forth something which can light the long shadows which it leaves out of the tragedy of his nation and the searchings of his own soul came this charming fantasy from the pen of the soldier-write-r with the secret he learned from the Little Prince who learned it from the fox "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Diary of a Broadcaster A postcard signed by a fictitious name, dated the day Pantelleria fell, contained this statement: "Italy so far has got the best ter-ritory of the world: most of France; the richest prize of the war: Jugo-slavia; the greatest strategical area in the world: Greece and her is-lands. Italy will .dictate the peace, save the U.S.A. and get two-thir-of Africa, meanwhile Mussolini is Supreme everywhere. Italy got all and lost least, can fight 1,000 years." Some 7,000,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Pantelleria island from June 1 to June 11 when it capitulated. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Allies' Italo-Balka- n Moves Factor In Baffling Axis on Invasion Plans; U. S. Moves to Solve Corn Shortage; Russ War Stepped Up on Orel Sector (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. I TEUFACT NATIONAL INCOME AND WAR . WAR EXPENDITURES H 00() U.S.A. BRITAIM rwi 0000000 GERMANY gac, Symbol represents 10 of national income TAXES: 50 Billion Goal Secretary Henry Morgenthau dis-closed that the treasury would trim its request to congress r ore new taxes down to $12,000,000,000 in-stead of the $16,000,000,000 originally planned. Nevertheless, this- would be enough to raise the public's over-all tax bill during the 1944 fiscal year to $50,000,000,000. Declaring that the Treasury's goal was to pay half the annual war costs "as we go," Mr. Morgenthau esti-mated that this goal is $4,000,000,000 less than President Roosevelt's Jan-uary budget objective. Treasury recommendations for raising the additional revenues were slated for submission to congress be-fore its proposed summer recess. RATIONING: Eight New Plans Louis J. Kroeger, OPA rationing official, disclosed that eight new ra-tioning programs are being prepared by the Office of Price Administra-tion and may be instituted within the next year. Mr. Kroeger told a house appro-priations committee that two of the ration plans will be placed in force immediately, but that six others, in-cluding coal rationing, are contin-gent on directives from other gov-ernment agencies. The two pro-grams definitely scheduled cover cooking and heating stoves, and a new system of allotting foods to all types of institutional users, includ-ing hotels and restaurants, which will not affect consumers directly. Except for coal, the other prospec-tive rationed items were not listed, but Kroeger said they included goods for which the government of-ficials see a definite possibility of shortages in the next fiscal year. Eggs, milk and other foods have been mentioned recently by govern-ment food experts as possible can-didates for rationing. RUSS-POLE-Postwar Assurances Assurances of Soviet aid in re-storing a strong and independent Po-land after the war were given by Premier Josef Stalin of Russia. Stalin's promise was contained in a message sent to the first Congress of Polish patriots In Russia who told him that "we will not allow persons who strive to drive a wedge between the Polish people and the Soviet union to trouble the water." Observers noted that the Polish government-ln-exil- e had no part in the exchange of amenities between the two peoples. Russia recently broke off diplomatic relations with General Sikorski's group In London, because of charges by the Poles of Russ executions of Polish army of-ficers and counter-charge- s by the Soviets of pro-Ax- espionage by the Poles. EUROPE: Air Blitz Continues Even as English King George V was inspecting ,the Allied armed forces in North Africa, air forces of the United Nations were preparing for the war's next decisive move by softening-u- p forays against Axis positions from western Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. In a single six-da- y offensive, Brit-ish and American bombers ham-mered destruction on nine different major German cities. These includ-ed Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Bochum, Kiel and Oberhausen. Heaviest assault was reserved for Cologne, industrial capital of the Rhineland and the third largest city in the Reich. In the Mediterranean, American and British bomber fleets swarmed over Sicily, attacking five major MEDITERRANEAN: Balkan Powder Keg ? The summary closing and opening of the Turko-Syria- n frontier within a span by the Allied com-mand had presaged new and impor-tant military moves, as the Med-iterranean area from Italy to the Balkans had tensed for oncoming ac-tion. Increasing evidence that the Axis' much-vaunte- d Balkans bastion might be a powder keg instead came in the form of reports from Ankara that Rumania had sounded out the Al-lies on armistice terms. From An-kara, too, came steadily mounting proof of Turkey's closer friendship with the United Nations. The ap-pointment of Brig. Gen. Richard G. Tindell as American military at-tache in Ankara and the dispatch of a contingent of Turkish fliers to America for special training were significant steps in this direction. Reports from Axis sources had re-flected increasing official bafflement over the Allies' next moves. After telling its listeners of "many land-ing craft concentrating from African coasts toward Pantelleria and the massing of a million troops for an Italian invasion," the Rome radio had broadcast a report that "large British forces were concentrating along the southern frontier of Tur-key." Observers for months had known that large numbers of Allied troops had been training in Syria. Lying in the eastern corner of the Mediter-ranean, Syria offered an effective base for operations against Crete, the Italian-hel- d Dodecanese islands, Greece proper or other Axis points in the Balkans. BUREAUCRATS: Congress Compliments The d home front government bureaus were given a friendly pat on the back and a virtu-al clean bill of health when the house appropriations committee approved appropriations of $2,939,441,504 for 18 civilian war agencies, including the Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information. In making public its highly com-plimentary report on the work of these agencies, the committee ad-mitted that mistakes had been made and will be made, but denounced those who criticize "without knowl-edge of the tremendous burdens thrown on agency heads and of the ereat strides made in putting the CORN: '42 Loans Called First steps in a program to solve the increasingly serious corn sup-ply situation came when the gov-ernment formally called loans on 47,000,000 bushels of 1942 crop corn effective July 15. The government had previously used deliveries of grain through liquidation of 1938-4- 1 loans to restore the operations of two closed-dow- n processing plants. The corn loan move was described as "only an immediate palliative, not the final answer to the prob-lem," and it was stated that efforts to find a solution would continue. The government's action came as the War Food administration and Commodity Credit corporation re-ceived a request from the Corn In-dustries Research foundation for ei-ther complete lifting of federal price ceilings on grain or the imposition of ceilings on hogs. Meanwhile J. B. Hutson, director of the Commod-ity Credit corporation, said that 25 million bushels of privately owned corn in grain elevators would be seized for plants manufacturing by-products for war uses, unless "crops can be moved off farms." RUSSIA: Orel to Forefront A stepping-u-p of land activities was reported on the Russian front with especially heavy fighting re-ported in the Orel sector. Here, Russian troops defending a strategic newly won bridgehead were report-ed to have beaten off eight German counter-attack-s. It was reported that strong forma-tions of Soviet planes had broken up German formations supporting Nazi tank and infantry units. The Ger-mans, however, were reported bring-ing up reinforcements in an effort to forestall the possibility of Rus-sian flanking movements against Orel, strategic Nazi-hel- d base mid-way between Moscow and Kharkov. Heaviest fighting was reported in the vicinity of Mtsensk, 30 miles north-e'a-of Orel. Russian air forces continued their efforts to disrupt Nazi supply con-centrations by striking at four rail-road junctions over which German supplies and reinforcements must move for the area. The junctions were Roslavl, Unecha, Vladislavoka and PACIFIC: United States on a war footing." "The type of criticism that serves only to create public distrust in the agencies is not helpful to the war effort," the committee's report said. OIL PACT: Navy Cancels Deal The tempest over the navy depart-ment's contract with the Standard Oil Company of California for op-eration of the Elk Hills naval oil re-serve subsided when Secretary Frank Knox announced cancellation of the agreement. The decision to cancel followed a legal ruling by the department of justice that the proposed arrange-ment exceeded the authority grant-ed by law, a navy announcement said. Norman H. Littell, assistant attorney general, testifying before the house public lands committee, said that a department report sent to the White House had concluded that the navy's agreement with the oil company was "illegal and in-valid." Colonel Knox declared that his own investigation of the agreement established that "no improprieties had been employed by either party to the negotiations." 13-to- -l Record With all indications pointing toward major sea and land engage-ments looming in the Pacific, air activities still held the center of the war stage in this theater. Most dramatic of all engagements was that fought out over the Solo-mons when American planes shot down 77 Jap aircraft over Guadal-canal while losing only six of their own. This score turned in by American combat fliers in the Solo-mons who have heretofore included army, navy and marine pilots was regarded as the best ever recorded in a single air action anywhere. But Allied planes were not idle elsewhere. Liberator bombers made their second heaviest raid of the war on Jap-hel- d Kendari, on Celebes is-land, 850 miles northwest of Dar-win, Australia, damaging airdromes and destroying planes parked on the ground. In China, a military spokesman for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- k charged that the Japanese again were employing poison gas in their operations in Suiyan province. Meanwhile Chiang's forces claimed new successes, including the recap-ture of strategic towns south of the Yangtze 'river. Italian air bases and maintaining a marathon of disaster to the Axis. The Allied fliers at-tacking Sicily reported tough fighter opposition and strong fire, contrasting sharply with the lack of Axis opposition over Pantel-leria. PAYROLLERS: 300,000 Cut Urged Charging that the government payroll has more than tripled since the First World war and that the government could get along with 300,000 fewer employees, a joint con-gressional committee on reduction of nonessential federal expenditures recommended that the Civil Service commission act to eliminate unnec-essary personnel. ."Wasteful personnel practices," a committee report said, should be prevented by a complete reorganiza-tion of personnel servicing and man-agement functioning. The beneficial effects of a merit system during the past two years, the committee charged, "have been impaired and federal funds have been wasted through the negligent attitude of personnel officers and op- eration officials." WAR GOODS: Allies Double Axis How United Nations' war tion produc- is forging fast ahead of the Axis was told by WPB Chairman Donald Nelson. The United Nations, he informed a house appropriations committee are now producing $125,000,000 000 worth of arms and war supplies a year almost double the Axis rate of $65,000,000,000. He said that Amer-ica- n military production will reach toP1944.rate f 90,000,000'000 a year TOJO In his dual roles of premier and war minister, hard-bitte- n Hidekei Tojo frankly told the Japanese peo-- p e that all signs pointed toward all-o- Allied offensive in the Pacific an where, he admitted, the Jap. had been tlons. forced back to defensive post In an address to the Japanese diet as premier, Tojo warned that th. war situation was "increasingly tense" and that the United and Britain were displaying sf' a new offensive. CLASSIFIED DEPART Memt RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES FEATHERS WANTffn FEATHERS WANTED, NEW7T Ship or write to Sterling Feather ,VR Olj 909 N. Broadway, St. Low, ' ll""!, mis01r, GUERNSEY HEIfbp, HIGH GRADE GUERNSEY HrT under one year and yearlinB. ,FE1, springer heifer,. 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Released by Western GROUP SELFISHNESS AND AMERICA of intensive na-tional IN THESE DAYS of Amer-ican war stress, groups people Play the war game for their group can get out what they or rather than for of the war effort, what is best for the nation now and in the future. The dominating sin of all such groups is selfishness. Recently I listened to a speaker of "The Labor talking on the subject Situation of Today." He was em-ployed in his state to handle the and was natu-rally farm labor problem sympathetic with the farm in-terests. His audience was a group of just .average Americans, includ-ing farmers, merchants, small in-dustrialists and others who go to make up the population of a country community. . In summing up, he said that labor, as represented by labor leaders; farmers, as represented by leaders of farm organizations, and industry and the politicians were all attempt-ing to take advantage of war condi-tions to further their own ends. Each group was more interested in secur-ing a present .advantage for them-selves than in winning the war and the peace; that despite these condi-tions, we would win. the war, but as a result of the group selfishness, we would lose a prized possession the American system of free enterprise; that those interested in instituting in America a new economic system were utilizing the selfishness of these groups to further their desire for an economic change. The speaker's conclusions were quite correct. Group selfishness, making of political capital out of the exigencies of war, will overthrow our free enterprise system. There is happening just what Arthur Bal-four, the great English statesman, told me on November 12, 1918, would happen if America should become involved in another world conflict, which he could see in the then "com-paratively near future." INFLATION AND ITS CONTROL WHEN WE HAVE more money than commodities money will buy, demand pushes the price skyward and decreases money values. That is inflation. The government is at-tempting to control this by limiting prices and taking money from peo-ple for taxes and for the purchase of war bonds. The real basis of it all is the increased money in the pockets of workers and the popcy of the government has been to keep on increasing that by a continuous raise in wages, either as direct hour-ly pa? or as overtime at time and one-ha- lf pay. There is a limit to the money water the dam will hold. The place to remedy the danger is at the source. o WAR'S END I WAS IN LONDON when World War I ended. I saw the people of that great metropolis cele-brate the close of hostilities with every evidence of a mad delirium that continued for a week. My hope is to see the end of World War II as it will be celebrated In an Ameri-can rural community. In such a setting there will be, I am sure, less of the dramatic, but a greater spir-itual sincerity than what I saw in London. It will be the kind of spir-itual sincerity that is characteristic of America's rural people and it has a greater and deeper meaning than the shouts of a metropol- - itan multitude. v JAPANESE LOYALTY ON THE MAINLAND IN HAWAII, some four or five years ago, secret service officers of the army and navy attempted to convince me that the Japs in the islands were not to be trusted. Sur-face appearances all pointed In the other direction and I did not believe what I was told. Pearl Harbor dem-onstrated that there was something more than surface appearance. What was true in Hawaii can also be true among the Japs on our main- land. There may be some good ones, but it takes more than the word of a Jap to provide convincing proof. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER QUITE PROPERLY the Allies are demanding unconditional surrender, but from whom is that uncondition-a- l surrender to be accepted? Is there anyone in the Axis nations who can speak for all and if so, could we accept his word? When the Ger- - .n,ary QUits' we can ow the Europe is over, regardless of who offers the white flag. That leS are exPcting. The Tunisian brand Will be satisfactory GOVERNMENT OF CmLIANS to the meaning and chiefundeH V cder.t e technically Constitution, he ii the ot the commander-ta-chie- f armed forces , civilian population, he ifthe dent, and to civilian, "esi-.-chi-during world can people did withrmiL i' xAmerl" ate dark bread- - th, T meat; because and thea rtolo0011 they must? bureat said aSir.S of creased paHtnr, an ucts ! n larm Prod-we- ll thaftte ?iffitad-- " ls the V advised h ',d an Produce inflatfon! "n ,lso Odor of Flowers More than 90 per cent of a: species of flowers in the wo:: have either an unpleasant odoi i: none at all. - White Markets Japan, too, it seems, is but:;!: with black markets, but the: they are called white marked. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Soldiers make an average of eight moves by railroad between induc-tion and embarkation for service overseas. ' Radio France, General Henri Giraud's station at Algiers, has re-ported that because "young Ger-- v man students are getting stirred up" a Gestapo agent has been stationed in "every" Ge.rm.an.university. The wives of American workers may be serving their families such exotic dishes as shark steaks and sea mussels soon, says the Office of 'the of Fisheries. Both are fine food. The Bern radio said in a broad-cast to North America that Switzer-land would be ready to resume her ."traditional role of travelers' para-dise" as soon as the war was over and that "the English language and American customs are .to be taught" to those catering to tourists. i The Nazi "Gauleiter" for the Bal-tic States has ordered the removal of all church bells as a total mobili-zation measure. Because many types of air raid shelters now in use are scant protec-tion against Allied heavy bombs, the German people have b'een told to hurry the construction of new under-ground shelters. Joys of a Washington correspond--, ent Received an invitation to ex-amine the products of a n corporation. The letter included this paragraph: "The company has no announcements to make; there won't be any handouts. But there will be plenty of refreshments and a buffet supper!" The federal order for a driving limit brought aver-age speed throughout the countrj down to about 37 miles an hour ii is reported. HIGHLIGHTS . . . i" the week's news SHIRTS: New York laundries in-dicated that the dirty shirt may become fashionable there when they announced they would not accept more than 5 shirts per family a week. BATTLE COST: The conquest of Pantelleria cost the United Nations only 40 airmen, Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, chief of the U. S. air staff, reported. PAY LOAD: Britain's latest ver-sion of the d Halifax bomber carries added fire power, a maximum load of 5i tons of bombs and has been Improved in performance, the British ministry of aircraft production disclosed. PILFERING: Thefts of United States government property, meas-ured by convictions and recoveries have approximately doubled in the last 11 months over the similar pe-riod the year before, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed. TRANS-OCEA- N : Munitions Min-ister C. D. Howe announced that a Canadian transatlantic air service will soon be started, carrying mail and official passengers overseas. AMITY: Argentina desires to draw close to "the great republic of the United States" in every way possible, Gen. Edelmiro J. Farrel, war minister, declared. TOKENS: A pocketful of tokens Instead of a bookful of food stamps is the latest proposal brought for-ward by the Office of Price Admin-istration. Still in the tentative state the plan calls for tokens in several colors and denominations. DAMAGE: The 26,000-to- n Ger-man battleship Gneisenau, damaged while escaping from Brest, France, In 1942, was so crippled that her chances of putting out to sea are remote for the remainder of the war, the London Daily Mail reported. |