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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEH1. UTAH little Nations' Skeptical f)f Fnfiirfi Pfiaffi Terrn t . : Oppressed Countries Fear That Hatred or L Indifference to Them Will Proposals When War Dy BAUKHAGE Knot Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1313 H Street, N-W, - Washington, D. C Like voices crying In the wilder ness the littla nations of the world are implicating America. They have been searching our oratund declarations of the peace aims of the United Nations to see just how much we have, actually, promised to "the little people." And tney are not sure at the present writing that it is very much. Sooner or later the United States must go on record In black and white, in "simple, straightforward English, as to what we can offer besides glory and honor and grati tude and sympathy for the men and women who have already felt the yoke of war. I had that brought home to me the other night. It was nearly three o'clock in the morning. The slim, earnest gentleman gentle-man opposite me with the slightly foreign accent had lost track of time and it seemed as If the ancient clock on the bookcase was discreetly muffling muf-fling its chimes. I was in no hurry for I knew I was hearing the soul of a nation speak, "You must remember," my companion com-panion was saying, "there are Just two kinds of nations in the world today, the big ones and the little ones. And the little ones whose borders bor-ders are not now the scene of actual lighting or those that are still battlefields battle-fields or may soon be all are filled with fear. Most of them have already al-ready felt the boots of invaders. And they fear that the great machine will roll over them again, that they will be obliterated and that when the peace comes, they will be forgotten. for-gotten. The big nations will make the peace." The next day I read the statement out of the Finnish legation mat "Finland "Fin-land wants to stop fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted and guarantees obtained ob-tained for her lasting security.'' " At about the same time, there was made public In London the proposals pro-posals for revising the constitution oftthtverjjnent of , the Netherlands Nether-lands empire which 'would'. advance the autonomy of the Netherlands East and West Indies and other possessions. pos-sessions. I had already heard a Hollander from Java state in most emphatic terms that plans would be carried through to give the Javanese an equal standing with all other citizens citi-zens of the Netherlands empire after the war. lie pointed to the fact that one Javanese had already held the post of foreign minister in The Hague before the days of the invader. in-vader. p: The Finnish statement and tlie ' Dutch intentions are both evidence of how those twt small nations are trying now, to assure the "big" democracies that regardless of present pres-ent conditions they only seek to maintain, main-tain, or where it has to some degree been lacking, to attain, the democracy democ-racy which they claim is as sincere as ours, whether they are under the oppressors' heel, as Holland is, or are maintaining a lopsided, precarious precari-ous neutrality like Spain, or even fighting against one of the Allies like Finland, (Finland is not at war with any country but Russia.) I think it is also evidence of the growing certainty of the part of the small nations, even those surrounded surround-ed by Nazi bayonets, that it is only a question of time until the United Nations will triumph. And they are afraid that war hatreds or indifference indiffer-ence to the fate of the little nations will dominate the peace. They are afraid most of all that the United States will withdraw from the scene as we did after the last war leaving only a blueprint for peace, the League of Nations, and no power to enforce its decisions. The Atlantic Charter to them is not a very specific document Newspaper Man-Arid Man-Arid War Hero You have no idea how many farmers farm-ers are in the aviation corps. Neither had I until I talked with a small town boy. I have mentioned him in this column before. It was an interview I had with Sergt Robert Golay, printer's devil and hero of the first American unified uni-fied flight over enemy territory in Europe the now famous raid over. Holland on July fourth for which BRIEFS A pinch in refrigerated storage space is predicted in ome areas of tlie United States. ' . When the French lost their impatience im-patience they lost the war. They were willing to sit behind the Magi-not Magi-not line. When the Japs lost their patience they lost the battle of Midway. Mid-way. It's a poor rule that doesn't work both ways. 'A V Dominate Ends. young Golay, aerial machine gunner, with others, was decorated. Golay is now instructing other small (and large) town boys in the art in which he has become proficient, pro-ficient, technically he Is an "armorer" "armor-er" or so started on his military career. Before he went into the army, Golay was a newspaper man a small town newspaper man, which means an "all-around" one. Not Just a reporter an all-around newspaper man on the Fredonia Daily Herald. Bob was a composer on the floor, was getting pretty good with a linotype lino-type machine. Of course, like all newsmen in a town of five thousand he sold a little advertising, collected bills, made out statements, wrote sports and covered an occassional wedding. He was trying to make himself a newspaper man so that later he could work his way through Kansas university. The Background A printer has to be nimble-fingered. nimble-fingered. He has to be precise. Bob wasn't thinking of that when he decided to get into the war. What he really was thinking of was all those flights in barnstorming planes that he had taken at the county fair and anywhere he could get when he had the two .dollars for a ride. He was thinking of the Schneider cup races and the other flights he had followed, of Byrd's trip to the Antarctic and the stories of Lindbergh's Lind-bergh's early career. But naturally he asked the advice of his boss, Ben Hudson, who is publisher of the Herald. Hudson is a veteran of World War I. He served in the infantry. I don't know, but maybe tlie air corps is as far as you can get from the infantry in-fantry among She combatant forces, Hudson recommended the former. So Bob went to Chanute Field in Illinois and signed up. : He soon became be-came an armorer and went to England Eng-land as part of the aviation ground force. Gunners have to know about guns and be able to demonstrate. Bob could. Gunners have to volunteer volun-teer for the job.j They aren't assigned. as-signed. Bob did and was accepted. That's how he happened to be in the turret when the U. S. air corps unit made its first independent raid over occupied Europe. And because of "coolness" under enemy fire, they gave him a medal and a pair of gunner's wings. - Golay is going to have a tour of duty instructing tor a while. When he doesn't know. He'll be glad, he says, to go anywhere in this "wonderful world',', he's ordered, ''but" (and there was a serious look in hla brown eyes in spite of the smile, when he said it) "I'm a small town boy and I like it," "Like being back home," said Sergt. . Robert L. Golay when he obliged the photographer by returning return-ing to the type case be gave up for a machine gun. WPA Nursery Schools Six million dollars,' earmarked by congress in the 1942-43 WPA Appropriation Appro-priation act for extension of WPA nursery schools, will make possible the release of more than 50,000 worn en for vital war work, according to Mrs. Florence Kerr, WPA assistant commissioner. "In i peacetime, WPA nursery schools were limited to children of jow-income families who could not afford to pay even a small amount for child care, but in response to the more urgent demand, emphasis for some months has been placed on service to children in war production pro-duction areas," Mrs. Kerr explained. ex-plained. "Without nursery school service, it would be impossible to utilize the labor of . many women who today are performing tasks essential es-sential to the war effort, Parents who are making good wages pay for this service in the WPA nursery schools to their children on a sliding scale commensurate with their ability." The current program, initiated in 1933, today serves about 55,000 children chil-dren in 1.250 nursery schools, Mrs. Kerr said. Approximately 300 loca-tions loca-tions In defense areas, where large numbers of mothers have entered industry, in-dustry, already are being benefited. Mrs. Kerr estimates that some 1,200 additional nursery schools will have been established for children of working mothers by the end of 42. by Baukhage Gasoline rationing is credited with the reopening of Hewlett HilL Syra-cuse, Syra-cuse, N. Y church tor the first time in 20 years except for intermittent occasions. The officiating minister explained that the clergy can get gasoline "while many of the persons per-sons in the outlying districts who are in the habif of attending our churches may not be able to do so because of the rationing." LI Aid for Small Business Urged by WPB; Allied Land-Air Offensive Relieves Jap Pressure on Critical New Guinea Front; FDR Envisions Higher War Production (EDITOR'S NOTE! Wfcaa aplnlone are ipre4 la (net H titer a Nawipaptr Uaiaa'a awe aaalinU ant nol naotuarUr tf t wapapa. Released by Weitern British raids on the German lines in Libya have yielded considerable success in damage to enemy communications and supplies as well as in prisoners captured for questioning. , Above photo shows some of the 97 German prisoners taken on a recent foray. SMALL BUSINESS: To Get Lifeline With the nation's inevitable progress prog-ress toward total war economy, many a small business man faced the prospect of becoming a postwar casualty unless a lifeline were thrown to him. Help appeared likely, however, when War Prodqctipn Chief Donald M. Nelson urged on congress the immediate creation of a war liabilities liabili-ties administration charged with the job of seeing to it that the little business busi-ness man survived. Four essentials for saving little business were recommended by Nelson Nel-son in testimony before the special senate committee studying wartime problems of little business. No. 1 is to help little business enterprises take care of overhanging overhang-ing liabilities they would have been able to discharge under normal circumstances. cir-cumstances. No. 2 is to provide a means for financing small business after the war. Third is to furnish technical and other assistance for small business -after the war;;, and fourth, is to provide a mechanism giving small business enterprises a priority . in the acquisition of machinery ma-chinery and equipment when the war is over. ROOSEVELT: High Goals Ahead Expressing the opinion that war production was proceeding at an extremely ex-tremely satisfactory rate and that the rest of the nation was far ahead of Washington in war spirit, President Presi-dent Roosevelt returned to the White House after an unprecedented secret inspection of war activities from coast to coast. Mr. Eoosevelt said that even higher production goals would be set in months to come. Although every detail of the historic his-toric Journey remained a military secret during its', progress, the publicity pub-licity which followed it reverberated across the nation once the censorship censor-ship curtain was lifted. In a dramatic dramat-ic press conference that paralleled in drama his famous "horse and buggy" attack on the Supreme court seven years ago, the President hit out at certain elements in congress, In the press and radio and in parts of his own administration that Were either deliberately or misguidedly hampering America's war effort. The President had warm praise for the nation as a whole. The people peo-ple in general, he said, have the finest kind of morale. PACIFIC AREA: Yanks Infiltrate In the New Guinea area of the Southwest Pacific, Allied mountain troops gave the Japs a taste of their own medicine by taking the offensive, offen-sive, sifting through Jungles and over mountains to recapture Nauro in the Owen Stanley range, weU beyond be-yond Ioribaiwa. the high water mark of the Nipponese advance on Port Moresby. A communique from General MacArthur's headauarters in A 11s. tralia revealed that American and Australian pilots attacked Japanese supply lines for 78 miles back to Buna, the main Japanese coastal base in New Guinea. Using native porters as pack trains the Allied troops covered difficult ground as rapidly as had the Jap invaders. In the Solomon islands the marines ma-rines continued to consolidate their positions and to strengthen the defense de-fense of the vital Guadalcanal air base against expected enemy assaults. as-saults. MacArthur's airmen made repeated raids on the Jap-hdd northern Solomons. Meanwhile in Washington the navy department reported the loss of two American transports in the original battle cf the Solomon islands. These were the 8,378-ton naval transport George P. Elliott and the transport Gregory, a small auxiliary. Newepaper Union. . HITLER: Boasts Anew Making his annual winter relief address at the Sportspalast in Berlin, Ber-lin, Adolf Hitler outlined a thcee-point thcee-point program for winning the bulk of Russia's natural resources and converting them to the uses of Germany. Ger-many. He assured his audience that Stalingrad's fate was sealed, and said he and his high command were constantly preparing for an Allied second front wherever it might strike. Listed as 1942 objectives on the Russian front by the fuehrer were; domination of the Don river area; capture, of Russia's oil fields and coal deposits; and securing the German Ger-man position in the Black sea area through settlement of the Crimea. ; Observers who remembered Hitler's Hit-ler's boasts of a year ago that "Rus- sia is beaten and will never raise its head again" expressed the belief that winter once again would find the fuehrer's claims unfulfilled. Indications that increasing RAF raids were affecting German home morale were seen in the applause that greeted Hitler's promise that "the hour will come when we shall strike back." Ridiculing the prospects of a second sec-ond Allied front, Hitler declared that if the British tried again to invade Europe, they could count themselves them-selves lucky if they stayed for nine hours as at Dieppe, for "we have made thorough preparations to welcome wel-come them." USED TIRES: Frozen by OP A Price Administrator Leon Henderson's Hender-son's action in "freezing" all used tires and tubes in the hands of present pres-ent owners until a normal rationing program can be worked out was regarded as a further effective step toward accomplishing the rubber conservation program recommended recommend-ed by the President's rubber investigation investi-gation committee. Mr. Henderson said the new order or-der would add considerably to inventories in-ventories of rubber available to assure as-sure American motorists of "tires for essential uses." In the order, the OPA prohibited the transfer of any used tires and tubes by dealers and consumers. The order, however, does not prevent pre-vent the sale to a consumer of an automobile equipped with used tires. Automobile dealers also are permitted permit-ted to shift their used tires that are mounted on cars in stock to other oth-er cars in stock. Car owners are permitted by the order to have their used tires and tubes repaired and to have tires recapped if they qualify for the latter lat-ter service. MISCELLANY: LONDON: Plans for a London recreational rec-reational center for the United States armed forces on the lines of the New York Stage Door Canteen were announced here by Harvey D. Gibson. American Red Cross commissioner com-missioner in Britain. The center, to be known as the "Rainbow Cor ner" will be located just off Piccadilly Picca-dilly Circus and will accommodate 400 persons at one time. WASHINGTON: Unofficial compilations compi-lations of war- appropriations since Pearl Harbor indicated that the total to-tal would reach approximately 140 billion dollars before January 1, 1943. The staggering allotments with others even greater deemed a certainty by congressional observersalready observ-ersalready represent an amount four times the size of America's biU for World War I. Appropriations voted by congress do not represent actual expenditures, but constitute authority for administrative officials to commit the government for definite defi-nite purposes. RUSSIA: Race With Winter As autumn brought blustery cold days presaging the advent of a Russian Rus-sian winter, the historic struggle for possession cf the Volga area con-Unued con-Unued with the Germans hurling to new infantry forces, tank divis ons and air units and the bard-pressed Reds stubbornly contesting every foot of territory. , In the ebb and flow of continuous battle, one Russian counterattack threatened the Nazis' right flank, while another against the Germans left flank had pressed slowly down between the Don and Volga rivers. Meanwhile guns of the Volga fleet continued to pour death into the ranks of the Nazi invaders. Despite local Russian successes, the gravity of the situation remained. re-mained. The Germans retained mastery of the air. Their tank and mechanized forces were superior to those of the Red defenders. The German high command was spending spend-ing blood and lives recklessly. To the south of Stalingrad in the Caucasus, the news was more encouraging, en-couraging, for Soviet armies had continued to delay the advance of the Axis forces into the priceless oilfields. SECOND FRONT: Churchill Enigmatic Somber was the report Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave on the Dieppe Commando raid when he revealed that Allied losses were "very nearly half of the troops involved." in-volved." The prime minister said that Brit-ish Brit-ish tanks were held up by the "altogether "alto-gether unexpected strength" of defense de-fense blocks placed at the ends of Dieppe's streets by the Nazi defenders. defend-ers. These statements together with a later admonition to Parliament about the undesirability of public statements or speculations regarding regard-ing the opening of a second front had the experts puzzled. Was Churchill emphasizing the Dieppe losses to lull his Nazi enemies? ene-mies? Was he hush-hushing the second sec-ond front for the same purpose, or to quiet home demands? The between4he-lines implication of his statements, according to seasoned sea-soned observers was this: "Let's keep Hitler guessing. Of course we have definite plans, but let's not expose ex-pose our hands." o ISOLATIONISTS: . Urged to Recant Pre Pearl Harbor isolationists were urged by Supreme Court Justice Jus-tice Felix Frankfurter to contribute to "the spiritual unity which the peril of the hour demands" by publicly pub-licly repudiating their former views. In an address at the inauguration of Dr. Harry Noble Wright as presi- JUSTICE FRANKFURTER "... candid recantation." dent of the College of the City of New York, Justice Frankfurter said: "Nothing would so make for a strengthening of the morale resources re-sources of the nation than a candid recantation of their foreshortened views by all prewar isolationists." Justice Frankfurter cited as a distinguished dis-tinguished example, the case of the Very Reverend Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham university', who publicly admitted that he had been "completely wrong" in his prewar pre-war opinions. LABOR: Gets Blunt Advice American labor leaders were bluntly told by Rear Admiral Ben Morrell that the people could live without labor unions and "they will damn well live without them, if all of us don't get in there and pitch." Speaking before the building and construction trades department of the American Federation of i Labor in Toronto, the chief of the navy's wU,cau 01 yaras ana docks said he was not implying that labor has any exclusive responsibility for the country's coun-try's failure to produce the maxi-mum maxi-mum of war implements, but that he felt working people had the biggest stake in the war. U. S. BIRTH RATE": J. C Capt, director of the census bureau, revealed that the population of toe continental United States, including in-cluding members of the armed forces abroad, was about 133,965,000 last January 1, as compared with r,nm8te1 ".DOO on January i'JZ 11,13 "Presented a gain of 2,296,000 over the 1940 census fig-ures. fig-ures. -r 6 Births in 1941 accounted for a population pop-ulation increase almost 50 per cent above the average annual gain. Mr. Capt reported. j WNU Sy,) L Votes of an Innocent Bystander: The Story Tellers: Following In (he typewriter ribbon of Shlrer and flanneryi the last CBS boy in Berlin, Ber-lin, Howard K. Smith, dishes out a ilice of exciting reportage in "Last rrain From Berlin" (Knopf). Goeb-sels" Goeb-sels" barrage of lies, Smith states, aas discredited him in Naziland and lelped inflict a spiritual nervous breakdown on the Germans. Seems that the only people who take Goeb-jels Goeb-jels seriously are a few American editorialists .. , ; The most eyebrow-lifting eyebrow-lifting part of "Sabotage!" is that many of those in the Benedict Arnold Ar-nold camp have escaped the clutches Df the law , . It should be compulsory com-pulsory for all defense workers to read W. L. White's "They Were Ex-pendable" Ex-pendable" (Harcourt, Brace). If that report can't make you put an extra ounce of steam in your work, nothing can . . Wallace Carroll, the UP foreign correspondent, hangs the crepe around the crystal ball by predicting, in "We're in It With Russia" Rus-sia" (Houghton-Mifflin) that after Hitler is crushed there will be a revolution in Europe. But it's hard to understand how Europeans will have any stomach for blood baths after this war is over ... Corporal Hargrove's cap and bell version of army -life, "See Here, Private Har-grove" Har-grove" (Henry Holt) is funnier than a top sgt. with a soprano voice. If Clare Boothe gets to congress she'll make many of the windbags there let go of the flying trapeze and come down to earth , . She's one to break up the demagoguery and force them to drop the ifs, buts and howevers ... She revealed that in her initial oration with: "What's all this cooing with Franco and Laval, anyhow? All they wish us is bad luck!" . . . John Mason Brown's account of his operation will be called "Insides Out" . Jolson, back from Britain, reports the high morale there ... "I went to see a movie," he says, "and it contained some newsreel scenes oi the first Nazi air blitz showing a movie audience shivering from fright. The Londoners in the real audience rocked with derisive laughter." The explanation of . certain military mili-tary leaders (to the public relations execs, who take the brunt of squawks over lack of war news) is this: "We're not interested in good write-ups only victory. The thing to remember is4 this: The public always al-ways cheers the winner!" . . . The peacetime use of inventions (which are now military secrets) will make the peacetime world a fairyland . . . If you wondered about those familiar famil-iar voices (of the narrators) in "The Battle of Midway" film they belong be-long to Henry Fonda and Donald Crisp. In case you were wondering about the difference between the Garand repeating rifle (used in combat) com-bat) General MacArthur is the authority au-thority for rating it the tops. Said the General: "A child asked his dad the difference between "a-s Garand and an ordinary rifle. "There's a big difference,' said the father. 'It's just as if I spoke, and then your mother spoke' " . . . The one they still talk about at Fort Dix concerns the Sgt. who bawled out a rookie for standing around with his hands in his pockets ... You'd think," barked the Sarge, "you had a $1,000 and were afraid of losing it!" . . . The rookie happened to be Pvt H. Morgenthau, 3rd, whose pop is the Treasury biggie , , . An acting corporal (one waiting for a corporal-cy) corporal-cy) is called "A Hollywood Private." This story, which is sweeping the town they insist actually happened hap-pened . . A high-ranking Washington Washing-ton official came to see the President Presi-dent and delivered his views on a matter of importance . . . When he was finished, the President smiled and said: "I'm inclined to agree with you" . . . The man departed, glowing with satisfaction and goodwill good-will toward F.D.R. . . . A few minutes min-utes later another caller discussed the same subject taking the opposite oppo-site stand '. . . When he was through the President smiled and said: "I'm inclined to agree with you" . The visitor took his leave flushed with success. Mrs. Roosevelt, who supposedly heard both conversations, criticized the President . .". "How could you do that to those men?" she observed. ob-served. "It is not only unethical but it is unwise politically!" F.D.R. smiled and said: "I'm inclined in-clined to agree with you." The Magic Lanterns: Far and away the film of the week is the gov't-sponsored Battle of Midway. Kodaked in color, the scenes of Jan havoc make you full of fight The ragged enect you can blame on the bombs, which jolted the camera right off its perch. It's a real pulse whipper . . , Ginger Rogers rigs herself out in pigtails and pinafores to cut a swath among the puppy lovers in "The Major and the Minor. Mi-nor. Ray Milland and R. Bench-ley Bench-ley chip in, and it all keeps you laughing out loud. Tommv U.i r, .. - - - w 1 Mil a, n The teacher wa7r' explain the ineanVi words to her S the word. "sufficL tS 1 1 a r . .. "Now," she said-b . us suppose there wa,n and I gave it a which it drank'Sq another sauoi Vt.I U all. ButwheH'S saucerfulitw0i!?l half of it. We can7 th ,.-, I ,can wen &. Tommy, what fa iff J sufficient?" ti . . I my, who had been. I'M lies of ve, "it means a T!1 leader lias, Irood Jrolwa V "si m Lin , .uu MlieEalK, 7' u' D1ea have been o5 days before anA m j- the fun term, the tween these extreme case, almost four months. Relief At b u ) aaaaaTVaV aaW Sal iui lUUIOUlt Creomulsinn reiw. 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