Show Victory Inevitable Despite e V VY Y Deadly Undefeated Foe Optimistic Americans Fall F to Realize Enemy's Strength In Experienced Men Naval Forces and Air Power By BAUKHAGE eus and Commentator U Service Union Trust Building Washington D C But General The other day I saId that after a along along long and enlIghtenIng talk by a hIgh army officer who vho was patIently and painfully trying tr mg to show us why de despIte despite spIte the recent vIctorIes of the Al AI Albes lies bes we still had a formidable enemy to meet a dangerous deadly and Undefeated enemy Victory VIctor of course ie 13 certain eventually but serIOUS reverses setbacks and sac sacrifices are still before us he be had sad sa d dI sadI I believe belIe my own exclamatIon but general Is typIcal of some of those buts whIch have arIsen In your minds m J AmerIca IS the super duper land landof landof of inventive genIUs business genius organizing genIus mass productIon high standard of 11 hung mg assembly line gIant industry efficIency wealth central heating apple pIe and unlimited True we got our first f real drubbing at Pearl Harbor but we ve came back the BrIt BrItish British ish were licked at too but they won the battle of Britain Latterly we collaborated In the smashing victory of TunIsIa the RussIans beat em at the Chinese have held em oft off for what seems a lifetime Why then 7 The general looked a little weary but he went on I can t quote all he saId but will gIve you the parts the OWl says Is okeh The enemy has the bIggest most effectIve fighting force lD in h story B But AmerIca and Rus Russia Russia sia and Austraha Armed Strength Figures U U S Army officIal The enemy still has 17 m million hon men under underarms underarms arms The German sold ers and theIr tea tes some a little ragged still total 17 m lion trained men menThe menThe The Japs have at least three million In unIform These the good and the bad comb ne to make the b g gest most effectIve fighting mass masse e ever eer er assembled rn m history Remember Remember ber the enemy has been years bUIld bUIldIng building Ing thIS force and the I ans lD in these st c countrIes have sac sacrificed all the thIngs necessary necessary- things we wouldn t even think of ra bOnIng including lIberty and de decency decency In cold numbers the enemy still outnumbers us lD in land forces And even today after MIdway Guadalcanal Attu TunIS a Stalin Stalingrad Stalingrad grad and the bombings the enemy Is still well equipped well trained well co can operate under adverse condIt ons and In the face of terrIfic hardshIps which our troops are just now beginning to master That Is a brief sum up of the en enemy enemy emy land forces from a m military man s point of vIew As to the enemy naval forces The Germans have though you may not have reamed realized from recent news a small but hIghly specIalIzed navy still afloat plus the sub The submarIne is still the bIggest Allied problem Submarines are tough animals now Our own are tough enough and these animals are the German specIalty Depth bombs have ha to go deep to do any anymore more mare than break the glass in the shaving mIrrors and Instrument faces Even In the last war it took tooka a lot of depth bombs to get one sub Now the subs can crash dIve shIver and rIse to fight back and fight hack back they can They are mounted with guns they can stand up to an escort ship at least a corvette and it takes a destroyer or a fast cruIser to catch them even en when they stay on the surface where they can re return return turn fire The small stuff 30 call ber bounces o off I theIr scales Japans Japan Navy The surface ships whIch Germany has are not so much of a factor But Japan s 15 navy Is still to be reek reck reckoned WIth It is not destroyed but It has to be before we can achieve victory m in the Pacific Just taking Islands won wont t do the and lob see how long it took to take an Island first Guadalcanal now almost at this writing Attu AmerIca now leads the world But remember Germany was the first to bu Id a supreme luft wage and that and the themen themen men who made It are not all dead yet Japan s vaunted Zeros whIch could outmaneuver us because of theIr lIghtness it is true exploded at one shot They have been rm proved Germany has improved a number of her models too She IS holding back many for defense The enemy army ns as a whole IS better trained by experIence than our men But those of our men v who ho have had equal training and ence are as good or better man for forman forman man although not yet et perhaps of officer officer for officer off Remember Ger many and Japan bred an officer class We trained a few professional officers I 1 mated theIr prestIge resources and opportunIty The ma maJOrIty majority of our officers m in wartime v artIme come from cHilian en than life lile They are aregood aregood good when they get the training and the experience As to the fighting man Sell ell we v e ye ve stood up to HItler s 15 finest m in Africa at bayonet s length w a ye ve beaten the crawl l ng Jap at hIs own game Jungle fight ng Long Range VIew But stIll we e have those odds whIch I or rather the general mentIoned when we look at the long range vIsta They are the thIngs whIch the general brought up m in answer to the buts I B 11 name the buts In Ina ina a second The point is he showed me why It can t be done tomorrow tomorrow- why hy we cIvIlIans have to be pat ent He showed ho me what hat we have to do before we get over that rIdge After tomorrow we ve can consIder The enemy t the InItIatIve the AmerIcans and BrIt sh have When things don t go accord ng to plan they are 1 kely to bust We won t The enemy has had ItS best men in the army a long t Its me-Its replace replacements meats ments are not as good as ours will willbe willbe be Much of the enemy held territory has a host le Ie on v which wIll work vork WIth the Allies against the en enemy enemy emy when we move lD in Japan and Germany win will fall fail on crit cal materIals before we ve will- will vve e can beat them at theIr own game of ersatz too witness synthetIc rubber We can manufacture and build faster because we have more to do doit doit it wIth than they have Our home front is farther aw av ay from the battle front and It is more in sympathy wIth the government gO despIte pout polItIcal Ical difficultIes But remember the buts S e eWar War WaT Stimulates Stimulate Changes Change In Education One of the many changes whIch the war var has stimulated is the change m in educatIon EducatIon is to count more after the war Many boys wIll come back partially tra ned m trades and professIons whIch they can follow If they have havethe havethe the addit onal theoretIcal and prat practIcal instruct on necessary to arm them for the stIff competition whIch Is expected As a result college entrance ex aminat on wIll be greatly altered for many of these men wIll lack the trad pre tes Reform in thIs field is isone isone one of the 11 maJor obJectIves dis discussed cussed lD in a report of the commis commission SlOn sion on lIberal on of the As Association of American Colleges If H an educatIonal program Is to tobe tobe be of genuine servIce to the men and women of the post w ar world the report of the cOllege commIttee says It must perform two t ons sImultaneously It must take them as they are and appeal to theIr immediate desIres and special needs and it must provIde for theIr common and enduring needs in a n OJ It w will l be recalled that the boom after the last war created the coon coonskin skin colleg an and the flapper coed The word collegIate had a mean meanIng meaning Ing then which took it far afield from the clo do ster of learning The crop of wIll veterans be bemore bemore more serIous They must be taken more seriously They must have aptitude and achIevement tests rath rather rather er than book learn ng exam nat ons there must be more dual zed instruct on more tutorial and sem nar methods special attentIon mt mi st at be gIven to co Instruction that will aId In the trans tion from army or al life lile to peacetIme ty and family relations and the I t es of c t p |