Show I Views of the Press I If congressmen desire fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental fairness for men now In training they will see to it That camps are rushed to completion so that training may begin immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately that equipment is provided them with which to train and with which to fight if the latter duty should shoud be inescapable Inescapable inescapable ines ines- capable that makers of equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment fulfill the same obligations that have been accepted with almost universal good grace by bythe bythe bythe the men called caned into military training New Orleans Times Picayune The only thing remarkable inthe inthe In Inthe the new centralizing of authority over defense preparations is that it was so long in coming True it is that the defense effort has not been long under way but time in such endeavors is rela rela- tive From nearly every quarter quarter quarter ter we had been hearing for days about the need for more positive and more powerful direction of the defense program The Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington columnists one after the theother theother theother other presumably reflecting the comment and concern that came cameto cameto cameto to their notice were writing about it it Creation of the new defense high command should shoud remove the main bottleneck in inthe inthe inthe the defense program found in inthe inthe inthe the hitherto divided and insufficient insufficient insufficient authority in the defense commission Portland P Portland 0 r t 1 and Ore- Ore gonian It did not require a statistical report from Washington to apprise apprise apprise ap ap- ap- ap prise the public that American families are growing smaller that has for some decades been an obvious fact It is valuable however to get the census bureaus bureau's bureaus bureau's bureaus bureau's bu bu- bu- bu reau's statement of exactly how much smaller and to learn that the average household has been reduced from 49 persons in 1890 to 41 in 1930 and is now in 1940 38 persons The day of large arge families was a day of frontier frontier frontier fron fron- tier conquest and of relative sec se- se c rity The day of small families fam fam- flies HIes is a day of so called overproduction overproduction overproduction over over- production actually under-con- under and of widespread in in- in security The figures pose a avital avital avital vital problem for those who guide the nations nation's course St. St St. Louis Post The new congress eager as that body always is to establish supremacy may be expected to try every expedient to drive the president into the shadow But it should have its hands rather well occupied The man in the White House has ca carried ried the country three times in sion He has decided ability as asa asa asa a speaker when he decides to address the people As a political factor he knows what it is all about The prospect is that Washington will be bean an interesting Interesting interesting Interest interest- ing place pace to watch during the months to come It will be bethe bethe bethe the same old battle not unlike the legendary encounter between the lion Hon and the unicorn Bos Bos Boston ton Globe Gobe Whatever the U. U S. S attaches did in Paris is as nothing compared compared compared com com- pared with the operations of this professional ring of nazi cutthroats cutthroats cutthroats cut cut- throats working behind the facades of the German lates The Record believes it is high time for our country to demand the recall of all these German consuls and attaches and a recall en masse not one oneat oneat oneat at a time so those remaining can train newcomers to carry on the dirty work If it was within the rights of Germany to demand re removal removal re- re mova moval of our envoys envoys' as Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Hull HuU says then says then it certainly certain certain- ly is our right to demand re removal removal removal re- re moval of the whole nazi gang which has become persona non grata to the American people even if the state department manages to hold hod its official nose Philadelphia Record Across the narrowing waters men live in slavery savery Across the narrowing waters a wounded nation nation na na- na- na tion girds to fight against ion Here we sit most of us this Christmas day content in the warmth of our homes and secure against the death Mars wields We represent a peak of Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian civilization but are we Christians We must in all honesty honesty honesty hon hon- esty admit that we are not for fellow men live under the shadow of another Herod even as Christ lived in the shadow of the Herod of the Bible Bibe and men mendie mendie mendie die at the will of another Pilate even as Christ died on the cross at the command of the Pilate of the Bible On this day others will voice many sound pleasant ing words These are not Think well wen upon them for th they y plead in the name of Christ who fought as men fight and died as men mendie mendie mendie die a Christ who was not a meek and mild creature worthy only of perpetuation in pigment and idle Ide words but a man not afraid to ask sacrifices of aUmen all aU allmen allmen men knowing full well none could sacrifice more than He He Atlanta Constitution |