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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION , Germany's 'Second Army Is Nazi Way of Total War Storm Troopers, Elite Guard Are Backbone Of Hitler's Special Military Forces; Every Third German in Uniform. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. As I walk down Pennsylvania ave-nue these brisk winter days with all the sharp reminders of history about ' me General Jackson there on his horse, d in the air with his charger pawing the heavens, in the center of Lafayette park; the thea-ter on the spot where Seward was attacked as part of the plot that laid Lincoln low; and across the road, the White House, with its kaleido-scope of history I wonder about the year ahead of us. Are we going to face a casualty list of 400,000 Americans in the next Vh months? I have watched the President closely at the last press and radio conferences since he returned from Cairo and Teheran. I have noted a seriousness in his mien that I have not seen before. He said, when he was asked what Stalin was like: he is a realist, like me. And in the last few days, as I have talked with officials, I find this same note creeping Into their con-versations. Is America standing at Gethsemane, with the supreme sac-rifice to come? The great boast of Americans is that we are realists, that we are not to be led astray by starry-eye- d dreamers. And yet the last thing that America is willing to look at is the bare facts. Here are some of them: the Al-lies have one army apiece the armed forces. The Reich has two the armed troops and the uniformed "second army" (as early as 1939, an association of German tailors ad-mitted that every third German was In uniform). The Storm Troopers First there is the "SA" "Sturm Abteilung" storm troopers. They started from a nucleus "of "bouncers" who kept order when the Nazis had their early meetings before they came into power. By 1932, this group had grown to three million men Roehm's "brown shirt" army. Roehm, you recall, was purged. This great organiza-tion was then theoretically liquidat-ed but the forces which made its organization possible remained. In . 1936, there was still a great organi-zation (disarmed, except for a dag-ger inscribed- "all for Germany") which had a adminis-tration with 637 regiments perhaps less than 700,000 still a goodly "sec-ond army" in itself. In 1939, this group, with nothing really official to do, was given specific duties, among them "responsibility" for the mili-tary training of all German youth, as well as "responsibility" in ca-tastrophes and any national or lo-cal emergency. But that is only the foundation of the Nazis' "second army." The "SS" is the elite. "SS" stands for "Schutzstaffeln" usually re-ferred to as the "elite guard." These are the men whom Hitler has tried to forge into a new aristocracy. I can best tell of their training in the words of a former prisoner in an Austrian concentration camp, whom I know personally. He is not a Jew, but a Teuton. He told me that from personal observation, when he had been forced to work in an "SS" training camp, the train-ing of the "SS" men was just as brutal as the discipline of the prison ers except, of course, the bodies of the "SS" cadets were not injured to the point of rendering them useless. Strong anti-Na- prisoners were hung up by their wrists with their hands behind their backs until their chest and shoulder muscles were torn apart. . This, of course, would not be done to an "SS" man since it would render him unfit to serve the Fuehrer. But the "SS" cadets were beaten in the face with riding whips and pounded as mercilessly with whips and staves. Backbone Groups A part of the "SS" is part of the fighting army too. With complete divisions, infantry, armor, all the rest. There is bitter rivalry between the "SS" and the army high com- - mand. It is "touch and go" as to who will be there to surrender Ger many to the Allies in the end. These are the backbone organiza-tions of Hitler's "second army" but there are many ramifications which are strictly under the party con-trol the Nazi transportation corps three separate air groups, the fa-mous "Todt" organization ("todt" means death in German but in this case it is a man's name). This is a great construction (and now, after the bombing, reconstruction) organi-zation, the boys who parade with shovels instead of guns. There are several others the Labor service, trained in camps (something like the old CCC camps in this country); then come the va-rious welfare, women's and youth organizations. This deep regimentation (remem-ber, one out of three in uniform) is the Nazi way of creating a total war that is total. When the German armies are beaten, these organiza-tions will still remain. They can work on after defeat unless they are uprooted. A fuller realization of this prob-lem may make it easier for Ameri-cans to understand why, after his latest trip to Europe, the President is in sober mien, why the high army officials and the civilians who know this problem intimately, hope that civilian America will not wax overconfident on the eve of military victory. Status of Fascism In Spain One of the things that was not dis-cussed by the "Big Three" or the "Big Four" in the recent meetings at Cairo and Teheran, as far as the world knows, was Spain. The President, in answer to a direct question when he returned, said he did not see Franco. He ad-mitted, however, that something de-layed his return. He never said what. There have been signs that some-one has been whispering into Gen-eralissimo Franco's ear just the same. He has disbanded the Falangists. They are the uniformed party mem-bers, a real military and hard-fiste- d bunch of uniformed fascists, the ac-tive party members of the Spanish fascismo. I saw a few in Spain. They were polite to me as a foreigner but they were not pleasant people. The ones I met in the ranks were raw, un-tutored youths, anxious for tips; glad, I would imagine, in that wrecked nation, to get food and a suit of clothes from the government. There is nothing more hardboiled, of course, than a hardboiled youth. Take away from him the decent out-lets for his animal spirits on the ball field, In the school yard, any-where where he can whoop and hol-ler and be himself and what hap-pens? A terrific, pent-u- p force, all the primitive emotions seeking an outlet. The Nazis and the fascists knew this and their strength is still in the strength of the youth they perverted: the primal instincts of the caveman, which lurk within all of us, turned to the base uses of the party. Well, Spain, a nation of individu-alists, has at last been able to shake itself loose from part of this bond-age. The iron hand of Hitler, and the now withered hand of Mussolini, have been withdrawn. Spanish fas-cismo is almost an empty shell. It is an axiom that fascism can only live on blood, the blood of its enemies and when they are not within reach, its own people. It has no other sustenance it represents that group which, in the lower ani-mals, produces the outlawed, the lo-coed, the mad. We have these phe-nomena among the wolves, among elephants, even among horses the "bad elephant," the tiger which kills for pleasure and not for food. Starved to Death So Spanish fascism has been starved to death and the essential, decent instincts of civilized man are again coming to the surface. In this great struggle of the ideolo-gies, it has taken force to beat down force. It has taken a realization that human beings, banded together in an honest cause, have a chance against the beast, only if they can outwit him at his own game. Once the active element of evil is con-quered, the natural decencies of the civilized man rise again and domi-nate. WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Nazis Reel Under Combined Pressure Of Heavy Air Attacks and Sea Losses; New Air Blows Strike Japs in Pacific; Fifth Army Steps Up Assaults in Italy EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unior's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. New Britain VI ap shows points of U. S. landings on New Britain island at Arawe on south and Cape Gloucester on north. (See: South-west Pacific.) SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Bombings Jar Japs Japan's great air and shipping base of Rabaul on New Britain FOOD: Chickens, Points As the War Food 'ministration requisitioned 170 million pounds or. dressed chicken and fowl for tne government, OPA slashed point vegetables and or-dered values on canned frozen vegetables point-fre- . WFA's action was prompted By the government's inability to obtain more than 20 per cent of the fowl they required in recent months, ana the army was said to be particularly anxious to get the poultry for Sun-day dinners at camp and hospital diets. Civilians may be little affect-ed by WFA's order, however, since it does not apply to stock stored after December 30, 1943. Because of comfortable stocks of canned green and wax beans, zero point values were established for them. A 10 per cent reduction in consumer demands for canned peas and tomatoes during the last two months led OPA to chop their point values for No. 2 and 2 cans to 15. In an attempt to move frozen vege-tables from storage to make room for record pork stocks, all point values were removed. RAILROADS: Strike Off Seeking to avert a threatened strike after the switchmen, conduc-tors and firemen and enginemen had refused his offer to arbitrate their wage demands against the carriers, President Roosevelt quickly seized the nation's railroads for the gov-ernment. Representing about 150,000 men, the three unions had balked at pres-idential intervention even after the trainmen and engineers accepted FDR's proposal, as a result of which they received an overall pay in-crease of 9 cents an hour. Also accepting FDR's offer at the last minute were the 15 railroad unions representing 1,150,000 employees, who suddenly agreed to a former government pro-posal of pay increases ranging from 10 cents an hour for the lowest paid to 4 cents an hour for the highest paid, but also insisted on overtime compensation past 40 hours. Biggest Year Nineteen hundred and forty-thre- e was the greatest year in the history of American railroads. (1) 725 billion ton-mil- of freight were handled, a e equaling one ton hauled one mile. (2) Passenger traffic totaled 85 bil-lion passenger miles. (3) Gross earnings exceeded 9 bil-lion dollars, although net operating income amounted to 1 billion, 386 million dollars. LEND-LEAS-Aid to Russia With many of its great industrial cities razed and natural resources overrun, 3 billion dollars of lend-leas- e assistance bolstered Soviet Russia in its critical hours. To the Russ, the U. S. has sent nearly 7,000 planes, 3,500 tanks, 130,-00- 0 guns, 150,000 trucks, 25,000 jeeps, 225,000 field telephones, and 750,000 miles of field telephone wire. In addition, the U. S. has sent 1,000,000 tons of steel, 350,000 tons of metal, 400,000 tons of chemicals, 600,000 tons of petroleum products, and more than 18,000 metal cutting tools. Besides sending wheat, flour, meats, fats and oils, the U. S. also has supplied 10,000 tons of seeds to Russ farmers. came within closer range of U. S. bomb-ing planes with the marines' capture of two air strips on Cape Gloucester on the western end of the island. Following up heavy bombing which helped crum-ple the enemy's strong line of pill-boxes, the marines INVASION: Eisenhower Commands Hitler's high command shuttled troops in western Europe as Amer-ica's four-sta- r Gen. Dwight D. Eis-enhower assumed command of Al-lied forces and the stage was set for the big second front. Britain's Air Chief Marshal Ar-thur Tedder stood at General Eis-enhower's side as deputy command-er, with Britain's Adm. Bertram Ramsay as the leader of naval forces, and Britain's Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallor- y in charge of all air forces. As the Allies' supreme command buried itself in the mass of invasion detail, the tensed Germans reported heavy aerial bombardment of their channel fortifications and Comman-do attacks along the French coast to test their defense. As the Ger-mans awaited the grand assault, said Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel: Our defenses are technically cor-rect. FORTRESS EUROPE: Step Up Action Bringing heavy artillery into play, Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army blasted the Nazis from strong points blocking the road to Rome, while farther to the east, the British clambered past the enemy's Adri-atic bastion of Ortona, won after more than a week of vicious street-to-stre-fighting. As U. S. and British troops punched their way through the Nazis' stiff mountain defenses in stormed remaining (jen Krueger Jap positions with ' flame throwers. As the marines advanced at Cape Gloucester, ele-ments of Lieut. Gen. Walter Krue-ger' s Sixth army encountered heavy resistance at Arawe to the south. The Allies made increasing use of air power to jar the Japs loose on the wide Pacific front, dropping gas-oline tanks on enemy strong points on Bougainville and sending fleets of bombers to pound installations on the Marshall islands. AGRICULTURE: Meat Production Farmers received an e high of four billion dollars for livestock slaughtered under federal inspection in 1943 as meat production also reached an e high of more than 24 billion pounds. Fiftv cer cent more meat was pro- - p tmm pif 'AMmmmm I Traffic Toll Drops On the basis of reports for 11 months, the National Safety Council estimated that America's traffic death toll for 1943 would reach 23,000, 13,000 below the prewar yea. 1941. The north central region of the TJ. S. showed the sharpest decrease for the 11 month period, with 29 per cent less fatalities than in the simi- - duced than during the pre-war average, but after allocations to the government, civilian con-sumption was held to the prewar rate of 132 pounds per person. Be-cause of rationing, however, sup-plies were more evenly distributed than formerly. Meat output for 1944 was estimat-ed at 25 billion, 600 million pounds, of which 8 billion, 500 million pounds will be required for military and lend-leas- e purposes. CCC Program To help stimulate production and fulfill commitments to support crop and livestock prices, the Commod-ity Credit corporation spent 3 bil-lion dollars during the 1943 fiscal year. As of December 18, CCC possessed 32,898,338 bushels of wheat under 1942 loan, while 96,101,516 bushels were redeemed. CCC wheat stocks at that date totaled 86,928,000 bushels. Principal objective of the CCC's 1943. program was to increase the production of vegetable oils, dairy and poultry products and meats, and at the same time to underwrite OPA price ceilings. U. S. NAVY: 42 Carriers The U. S. finds itself well equipped as naval operations throughout the world quicken, with Uncle Sam's navy boasting of 42 aircraft carriers, including sleek destroyer-escort- s for protecting convoys. The U. S. start-ed the war with seven. Corsair and Hellcat fighter planes taking off from the carriers' decks have increased their striking power, and a deadly new dive bomber has been put in service. During 1943, the navy trained twice as many pi-lots as in 1942, and three times as many combat planes were sent to the front. During 1943, arming of merchant ships was speeded, 4,000 now being outfitted with weapons. F Germany's Scharnhorst. southern Italy, aerial and naval war-fare in Europe stepped up. Fleets of Allied bombers winged their way over the English channel to pound Nazi fortifications, along the French coast, and the RAF rained another 2,234 tons of explo-sives on battered, hapless Berlin. Following the British home fleet's sinking of the 26,000-to- n Nazi battle-ship Scharnhorst off North Cape, Norway, light Allied and German naval units tangled in the Atlantic off the French coast, with airplanes being called into play to help sink three enemy destroyers and a speedy blockade runner. RUSSIA: Reds Advance Delivering blows all along the e Russian front, Red armies surged forward again in the south as Germany's harassed high command shifted forces to check the big push. The Reds' heavy blows in the south fell as German resistance stiff-ened in the north around Vitebsk. Quickly shifting the gravity of their attack, the Russ struck on a front in the. south, first punch-ing hard at Zhitomir, then punching still harder above that railway hub at Koresten. This winter's Russian offensive was a real slugging match, with each side in the south primarily con-cerned with exhausting the other. Thii was a fatal accident, lar period last year. The mountain region recorded a drop of 28 per cent, the south central 24 per cent the north Atlantic 22 per cent' and the Pacific 6 per cent Mount Vernon, N. Y., was the largest city in the country without ?u?taMft 11 months ' among cities of 250 000 population or more, St. Louis report, and Ph ,St..deCline f 52 cent the smallest with 1 per cent. OPA UPHELD Officials of the Office of Price Ad ministration in replying to a house committee charge that the OPA w guilty of "usurpation and abuse of its powers" pointed out that the courts have upheld the QPA "'uers in nearly all tests. Out of 4,991 cases to the end of September, the courts have dered decisions ren OPA in all but 291 actions! officii said They also denied that OPA regulations have caused "wide spread business failures." ATHLETE Gilbert Dodds, a Boston student, has been voted theC" who has done the most tn J the cause - by the Amateur S vT Dodds is a track star Whl national indoo mUe ml the 1,500 meter race anJ Bill Smith, swimmpr f- - State U.. who is now n h"" hi Placed second and I,, ?Vavy' handball champi Plat. 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No one, not excluding the secretary of the treas-ury, has any conception of the meaning of such a figure as $165,-)4- 6 629,657. It represents the gov-ernment debt as of October 31, 1943. While that is the story of what we collectively, owed on that date, It is not until we break it down to what each individual or each family awes and must pay, that we begin to realize what it means. What por-tio- n of that sum is charged against Dad Mother, Johnny, Mary and the Daby tells us the real, the individual, story. On that basis, and going back i few years for comparisons, gives as some interesting and startling acts. On March 31, 1917, each one of as, as citizens, owed only $12.36. That was a mere nothing. For the whole Tamily it amounted to only $61.00. No need to worry about it. Dad could pay out for Mother, Johnny, Mary, the baby and himself any time he was asked for the cash. Then, a week later, we stepped Into World War I and immediately began spending real folding money. By the time we were through with that war and the peace terms were decided upon, August 31, 1919, each of us owed, as our share of the government debt, $250.18, a total of 1,250.90 for the family. That was something to worry about and we began saving our pennies, nickels and dimes so it might be paid and not kept hanging over our heads. We reduced it gradually up to December 31, 1930. At that date we had it down to $129.66 for each individual, with a total of $648.30 for each family of five. WE REALLY START SPENDING It was at that time we began spending money like drunken sailors. We paid out vast sums for raking leaves, for building Chic Sales specialties, for teaching girls to tau dance, the girls and boys to write poetry and plays or paint pictures, to pay men for leaning on shovels, to produce movie shows and hun-dreds of other things that had never before been considered necessary. From that December 31, 1930, to November 30, 1941, we had again run ourselves into debt to the amount of $412.32 for each individual, 12,061.60 for the family. That was very, very serious. For many of us it was as much as the home was worth at a forced sale. Then the Japs struck at Pearl Har-bor and we could not save fast enough to meet the cost of war, with no possibility of reducing the debt we had incurred by our wild spending. By October 31, 1942, that indebtedness for each Individual had Jumped to $686.36, a total of $3,431.80 for the family. The figures continued to climb and by October 31, 1943, each individ-ual share of that national debt amounted to $1,203.71, and for the tamily the staggering sum of P6.018.55. It is still increasing at a rate of about $50 a month for each of us, $250 for the family. By the time the Christmas bills must be paid it will be not less than $1,353.31 for the individual and $6,766.55 for the family. In time it must, and will, be paid and each of us and each family will pay our share, directly or indirectl-y. You hold collateral covering some of that debt in the war bonds you bought. You expect them to be paid and they will be. The pay- ments of the debt will extend over a long period of years. It is not only we grownups and Johnny, Mary and the baby who must pay but their children and grandchildren will fall heir to a part in that pay- ment. There will be no pennies, nickels dimes or quarters for the piggy banks. They must, for many years to come, go toward paying the and the family share of that government debt IN THESE YEARS of high speed war production our national income Is around 135 billions of doUars per year as against 90 billions as a maximum peacetime figure If, when the war is over, we are to pay as we go we must pay more than 15 billion a year as taxes. Today such a figure represents about one-thir- d of our income. Should that hicome drop again to peacetime pro- portions it would mean that one-ha- lf or more of all we take In would is tfml to economize. m taxes' Certainly "YOU CANNOT FOOL all of the people all of the time" but the ported phoney lecturers, witt a deTp wica .nd an air of knowing it aU an do a considerable job in ftai Action, while honest home talen would nothaveanaudlenc ENCENFER--- d werXf ceoUnHS , f e Uernenceau of 19m j . WE MAY NOT BE ABLF t nounce the Pro' mentioned In," i? e PIacs they have enlaced dUpa,tChes but 'han poverty. ore homes bavfaneaLH8153 MEN C-- and uSTSS States Change Methods Of Capital Puniblmi Since 1928, the states thai pose a life sentence for rmr have decreased from 8 to 6,'r those that execute by k-- : have decreased from 19 to says Collier's. Those inflict.: penalty by electrocution have " creased from 20 to 24, while using hydrocyanic gas have from 1 to 8. Incidentally, Utah still give:1 condemned man a choice o: L hanged or shot. j Hard Blizzard In the terrible blizzard t swept the northwestern sfv:.:r the United States in isa t :. sands of head of cattle standing up on their in: the fields. Headdrr The headdress of a noma: an of Turkestan, more than 30 pounds of : the equivalent of a new . hat. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage The American Palestine commit-tee has launched a nation-wid- e drive to mobilize American public opinion in support of the movement to the Jewish national home in Palestine. On December 7, 1941, building of a bomber required the work of 70 men for 1 year; today, only 17 workers do the same job. Aztec soldiers were paid in cocoa beans. As late as 1880, cocoa beans were still common currency in iso-lated communities of Middle Amer-ica. Vacation pay for all workers in the U.S.S.R. is being saved in spe-cial bank accounts to be spent after the war. The Veterans administration has paid out more than 30 million dol-lars on account of disability and death incurred in the present war. i Canned orange and grapefruit juice is supplied to bombing crews and submarine crews. A total of 195,000 tons of lime, enough to make 3,900 heavy car-loads, is used every year in the United States in connection with ag-ricultural insecticides and fungi-cides. Canned evaporated milk and canned dried milk have enabled the U. S. to have the first "milk army" since George Washington's troops fought in the Revolutionary war. The 450th artillery automatic weapons battalion, a re-sourceful Negro battalion that ac-counted for two German bombers and which became the first Ameri-can Negro combat force to land on European soil, has been cited by Lieutenant General Clark for out-standing performance of duty. HIGHLIGHTS " the week's hews INSURANCE: British maritime insurance companies have reduced the war risk rates on cargoes to and from the United Kingdom to about half the former rate, reflecting the greater security of the seas. RESTAURANTS: The nation's restaurants, hard pressed by food restrictions and difficulties in keep-ing employees, are serving 25 mil-lion persons daily. CARTOONIST: Arthur Young, fa-mous cartoonist and author, is dead at 77 in New York. He was active in campaigns for woman suffrage, labor organization, abolition of child labor, and other reform movements. He worked on Chicago, Denver and New York papers. AUTOS: Postwar automobiles will be lighter and will consume about half as much gasoline as the pres-ent models do, says an official of the Socony-Vacuu- Oil company. He also mentioned the possible develop-ment of steam and electrically pro-pelled cars to save motor fuel. PRESSURE COOKERS: The gov-ernment has taken pressure cook-ers off the ration list, but all pur-chasers will be required to specify that they intend to use the cookers for preserving food. Retailers have been instructed to take the custom-er's word for it. Those wanting cookers for other purposes must make application with the War Food administration office in Washington. FAT: The housewives of Amer-ica have salvaged 120 million pounds of fat and turned it in for munition manufacture since the campaign be-gan in July, 1942, it is announced ROOSTER: A "crowless" roost-er and a new breed of chickens are on display at the poul-try show in New York. FASHIONS: Ruffles and unneces-sary trimming are coming off cos-tumes of movie actresses, as design- ers strive to comply with wishes of the Office of Price Administration. The new and simple fashions are in-tended to save cloth. |