Show I i NEWS NEW S i ai 4 L THE E iJ I Dy By y PAUL HALLOS 3 y ti t by W W. tn ni I Newspaper UI I n. n WHAT 11 I AUK 1 In THINKING lN r. r WASHINGTON Only Only people prop Ie free trel Iy ly speaking their minds those these days dayson daysun on un the Issues of ot the tiny day ore lire the men menat menat at nt the front or just back Although they lire are millions s strong at rang i and will ho be the prevailing u. hulu- euro lI In the Iho country utter titter the war their views lire are seldom publicly re- re fl purled ported You can CiU find out what they only by talking tu with wilh those lit tit homo on leave ll or reading their lot let letter 1 ter to ir their families Their common lute line of thought hl ns us fu Lu us liS I 1 have been able to 10 judge Jud e in conversations Is fairly airly accurately irately presented In H n letter from an nn urmy army captain received by his father n a newspaper editor Ills Its views seem seem tin lilt average of men who wha have r rubbed elbows with allies and ami matched this with enemies to 10 achieve a n belter realistic rest of both bolls us as follows fellows Things look different out here I Southwest Pacific and there Is plenty of time lime to relied rell t on nil past life Tito because life out here Is so primitive so su basic stripped of nil all luxuries lux tin ea and niceties that liS as American kids kills we wt tools took fur for granted as liS part port of ot our nut country cotta coun try Hut now that Hint we arc giving wo wu have gained coined a I much liner perceptive per per- a a liner appreciations And I for one olle do not flat desire to quit nit until weve we've wiped out sot out not just heat beat down to tin un unconditional sue Sill surrender render render but but out the youth of or Japan and und Germany und tumid Italy Hilly For If we do tie not we shall shull have children who will in 2 25 years hove have to light fight Uie children growing up lip In those will now with minds countries now warped s. s Hut But will America get soft I 1 believe she is yet will i ro go o easy on nn them I suppose the tho American people still refuse to face imperi Imperi- nut lilt they damn sight Right better learn len quick mandates urn are being handed buck on a u silver sliver platter out IUt I here lucre to the English governor ns us he ho moves In Islands practically bathed In marines marines' blood There Is Isone Isone Isone one I cult can think of ot nt at present end and andI I back to dear old aid England Ragland It goes S I I This nil ay sound bloodthirsty i to the average uveral a civilian very comfort comfort- comforts comfortable RabIe s able und and safe ante in nn an easy chair in u a carpeted home Changed No Ne I 1 It If haven't changed chanced ed at nt all nil I 1 always thought thus 1 I just got acquaints J with primitive instincts that I figured fig figured I 1 would never have to know nut But I r must rely on thorn now to CO pre pr preserve serve servo the J I-J learned at t It seems strange in III n a way WilY to get acquainted with the ways our old pioneer ancestors did timings things We like they hew how our homes cut of the forests live simply and plainly Strange how habits stick click to a II fellow good fellow good and bad The desire j to keep clean cloon for tor Instance under I the most of ot conditions They tell me True marines would bathe and lel i wash clothes in rivers arid arad streams almost under Are fire so so strong was the habit from earlier training to keep clean Even now flOW washing clothes Is pretty primitive I usually do mine on Oil the time hood of a jeep with the front frontI I end half way WilY Into the stream Makes a n good wash board and a II fast fIlst running run run- running running ning river furnishes plenty of water Dont think just because we are In the service we dont don't have opinions ions I I Yes and they will be bringing them back back back-a u strengthened respect for the American way of life a first firsthand hand knowledge of the inferiority and ond competition of other systems a hatred of political deceptions or small talk lalk propaganda in short a 11 anew anew new realistic knowledge of the I world I v I IU LEGISLATIVE E U ii ii s ANALYSIS In and out of ot congress the re reaction re- re reaction action to Mr Roosevelt's many many- sided program sounded sound sound- sounded ed squeaky or quiet This was almost necessarily so The ideas themselves defied straight comment or analytical sifting For Instance the President pro proposes poses to get the power to draft dratt peo peD people pie into industry in order to pre pre- prevent prevent vent strikes But Dut there already isa is isa Isa a law supposed to prevent strikes directly the Smith Connally act I providing a off cooling period gov gov- government government seizure and penalties Un 1 Un- Un UnIon UnIon ion leaders shouted a few months I back hack this was fascistic robbery ot of their right to strike Mr Roosevelt docs does not propose to amend that or make it stronger This new law which he now wants is not one to draft strikers into the army or make them work but to al allow al- al allow w al-w low him to draft everyone women 18 10 to 50 as well as men 18 18 to 85 05 I Into any work he chooses by proc proc- Thus the proposition is to punish all for the sins of the Ule labor unions Then again this Austin Wadsworth bill was wars proposed a few years ago aga strictly as a manpower shortage measure President did not notI mention a manpower shortage as BS a I Justification for attempting to re revive re-I re re- re revive vive it I |