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Show PAGE THE TWO WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne TIMES-NEW- Navy Brain Truster Jap Dreams of Easy Conquest Fade ' - A- Man's Thoughts: er wrist-spankin- TYPEWRITER RIBBONS: Edmund B. Chaffee: The majority of us are for free speech only when it dealt with sub- jectt concerning which we have no intense conviction! . . . Lin Yutang: He was talking in an unbuttoned mood . . . Willa Cather: Puffy white clouds racing like lambs lei out to pasture in the spring . . . Mary Roberts Rinehart: She was gnawing on her grievance like a dog on a bone . . . Jan Struther: The apple tree buds were as tightly, rosily clenched as a baby's fist . . . Maurice Walsh: The cold spit of rain in the wind's mouth. The Story Tellers: Vogue, like lots of us, is disgusted with the way theater audiences respond to The National Anthem. The mag is sore at "the ridiculously casual way in which the audience giggle and whisBanper while The ner is being played as though it were a device to enable them to put on their coats and powder their noses to music" . . . The blackout, John Gunther reports after sampling London's, is "an unmitigated nuisance." He urges (in Liberty) that the U. S. avoid them as long as A beauty expert in possible Collier's advises gals to be natural, to be themselves. He says they should leave their faces alone, ex cept for foundation cream, powder. rouge, lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow and bluing . . . What, no newsreels? Star-Spangl- ... The Oep't: The SEP editorialist is one of the few who has remained ex. This excerpt from an editorial is a good reminder for our Cliveden Set: 'It is sink or swim. Japan is not waging war on the President Hitler is not warring on Dorothy Thomp son. In defeat, if you escape with your life, you will escape with little else, depend upon it. "The British, the Germans, the Russians and the Japanese have no illusions. They know they are fighting for and the devil take the hindmost So are you." Some people think freedom of the prett only gives you the right to agree with them ... Happinett doesn't depend on having a lot or a little. It depends on having what you think it enough . . . Doing silly thingt occasionally prevents us from being silly permanently . . . It is well to ignore the detractors who disagree with what you say because they would disagree with anything you say . . . Funny that it's easier for a friend to remember the one favor you didn't do than recall the many favors you did. The CUvednnoes weald rather try to win an argument with the President than help him win the war . . . An honest columnist Is bound to step on many toes because there are so many heels around . . . Any kind of constructive criticism will always be considered destructive by those criticized . . . Some Congressmen think of the people only when they need their votes . . . Some should be reminded that you can't love freedom, if you use it to hurt the country fighting for it A gal doesn't have to be Intelligent to outwit the smartest gent she just has to be beautiful . . . Uncle Samson can't hold back the enemy. If he can't trust the people behind his back . . . The time to worry about what your enemies say is when your friends start to believe them. Buy Defense Bonds The Wireless: There was a message from a Tokyo broadcaster which should make licking the Japs a duty. It told that American prisoners of war have been put at hard labor. These prisoners were the defenders of Wake and Guam . . The first tip from the loudspeakers that the RAF had blasted Paris carried plenty of irony. You recalled that the Parisians, when France surrendered, rejoiced that the Hpinie pineapples had spared the bure . . . Wednesday night lost Fred Allen but picked up a capable comic to sub, meaning Ransom ... . "? f , m (EDITOR'S NOTE When eplnlons expressed In these eelnmne, the are Iboee ef the news analyst and not necessarily ef tble newspaper.) . (Released by Western Newspaper Union.). VICTORY: For Navy Forces MAC ARTHUR: Almost coincident with the arrival )f General MacArthur in Australia lie first great word of an offensive against the Japanese had been revived, and the U. S. had hailed a rent naval victory in New Guinea. First reports had been of the sink- ng of 23 Japanese vessels, a dozen f them vessels of war, and though lew details were announced, it was jbvious that it had been a battle of he air rather than of the sea. Important in the first dispatches lad been the word that they were "island based" forces of the United States and Australia, and this had seen comforting in the extreme, for jntil this point America had not And His Job The sending of MacArthur from Bataan, where the man in the street had regarded him as a sort of "dead hero" certainly a hero, but condemned, apparently to either death or a Japanese prison to Australia, where he could start with a clean page in the defense of that continent had been greeted with wild enthusiasm from one side of the nation to the other. Paeans of praise had resounded not only in the press but upon the streets, and the general view was that the whole move had been made cleverly because while General MacArthur had given his Bataan job t, of General mown that there were any island into the hehands was still technically in Sases left to us in the Pacific theater with the exception of Hawaii. command, as the Philippines were It had been learned, of course, that placed under his jurisdiction. No less was the delight felt by the Japanese, after taking Wake island, had later abandoned it, but the Australians, who had demandfew believed that our own navy had ed MacArthur to lead them. The American public regarded it as sigmoved back in there. Aside from speculation about where nificant that the move had been the base was, a fact the Japs would ordered in late February, but had like dearly to know, the victory it- not been carried out until thus showing that MacArself was important. In the battle of Java sea we had lost one heavy thur was not rushing after personal cruiser ourselves, and our allies had honors or safety, and that he would lost four. In this battle the Japs had lost two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and other ships of war of lesser import. The rest of the ships sent to the bottom or put out of action were freighters, some of them being used as troop transports. Wain-wrigh- mid-Marc- h, OFFENSIVE: Aussies' Viewpoint Almost coincident with the arrival of General MacArthur, his chief of Gen. Douglas Maj. Gen. staff, Maj. Gen. Sutherland, and the MacArthur Sutherland rest of his party, official Australia began to talk and think in terms of not his command until he had an offensive against the Japs on a beenleave time to arrange things given of. scale hitherto not dreamed to suit him. MacArthur was accomAs to the Japanese themselves, panied by his chief of staff, after having previously reported, Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, andMaj. by weeks ago, MacArthur's flight from Brig. Gen. Harold H. George of the the battlefront to Corregidor and air corps. other untrue stories about the comConsiderable editorial praise had mander, they were considerably tak- been on Mrs. MacArthur en aback by the news that the com- when heaped it was learned that she and mander was in Australia. her son had not chosen the comparaThey did just what President tive safety of Manila and internRoosevelt had predicted, and de- - ment but had chosen to go to the battlefront with, the general, and then to take the long and perilous j plane journey to Australia with him. As to the general's job in Aus tralia, it was the toughest of the -whole war. That was conceded on all sides. For he was taking on his shoulders the command in an area where all had been defeat thus far. The Japs were figured to attempt the Australia blitz, despite the fact that they had learned that American troops "in force" were on the continent and that more were on the way. . jThe Australian occupation was so vital to the Japanese, however, that they were apparently ready to risk the showdown battle that would surely ensue. There was little question but that Australia was poorly prepared, for Prime Minister John Curtin had been stressing that since the beginning. But with considerable AmerPRIME MINISTER JOHN CURTIN ican aid it was hoped that the defense could be carried out success"American aid is doubly welcome." fully. clared that General MacArthur had Strategically, however, MacAr"run away" from the Philippines, thur's was even bigger than dejob to went on and then say that "AmerAustralia, for if President ican resistance in Australia would fending Roosevelt's victory plan were to be be shortlived." out it was up to him not The resistance in Bataan had carried to defend successfulstood as a monument to Japanese onlybut to be "inAustralia at the death" of the falsehoods and false hopes of easy ly, hopes in the Pacific, and conquest, and some believed that Japanese to carry on, from Australia as a MacArthur's assignment to Austra- hop-o- ff spot the successful offensive lia might give the Japanese pause that would, at least so America In going through with the Invasion, knock the Nipponese out of At any rate. Prime Minister Cur-ti- n hoped, the war. had said: MacArthur, on his arrival, had "It is most gratifying that the American troops are now here in found more than just American force. Their numbers are most sub- troops on the ground, he had found an air force which was carrying out stantial. "We are the base from which to his own ideas on Bataan striking often and fiercely at the enemy bestrike at the enemy. "American aid Is doubly we- fore he arrived on the scene. There were few who believed lcome because Britain could not car. ry the burden of the Pacific while MacArthur, even by a miracle of strategy, could prevent Japanese engaged in a life and death struglandings on Australia, even as he gle with Germany and Italy. "Our nation must demonstrate to was unable to prevent them on the history that it has the moral and Philippines. But many hoped that physical stature to stand up and he could and would find some methtrade punches with the enemy not od of striking such forces such terfor six weeks or months but year rific blows as to drive them into after year if necessary, giving odds, the sea and prevent their organization Into any sort of a successful but fighting the enemy to a standland army. still. "If we (ail ourselves, nothing will save us. We have to show ourselves PRODUCTION: A demaud by congress that WPB worthy of aid." His sentiments were echoed all Director Nelson report on over Australia, and in the halls of production had followed formally some apat senate and congress Washington, parent dissatisfaction with the nahouse leaders joined in. Chairman tional output which, in turn, had of Snyder military afT.iirs said, aft- come to light after a vital resignaer the nppluu.e had died down: tion within Nelson's group. "I hope from now on many ( our Nelson himself had cotne out with 'swivel chair generals' will rrmom- - a fighting statement threatening be. that on this rioy many things coolly to "knock down" any individare under way which will be just uals or groups that showed any s. pleasing to tiiein. when they find tendency to interfere with the out about them, as is the change in smoothness of national ar General Mar Arihur's status." " f&: if f k ' L SEWING aRCLE Vi VP-- M (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) iV The Front Pages: Bruce Bliven, Freda Kirchwey and other editors of the opinion weeklies argued that the U. S. war propaganda copies the methods of the last war and also the Axis pattern. The Axis tactics must be all right, the way some of our elected officials are mouthing its messages . . . The Sun found a silver lining in the trials of France's at Riom. Daladier's pop--, offs, The Sun points out, have put the accusers on the defensive. The reddened the court's kisser by delivering a long spiel praising De Gaulle, which Berlin won't care g for . . . Dan Parker's of the race tracks, for making the customers finance the owners' patriotism, was lifted by another a. m.er. But for some reason expired in one edition . . , The UP's figure wizard broke every heart in Hollywood with his breakdown of the proposed new income tax. An income of a million, he estimates, will eat up enough U. S. and California taxes to leave the receiver approximately $20,000 in the red . . . Too many correspondents are guessing that Hitler won't have the stuff for bis Russian Spring offensive. Two years of underselling Berlin should teach us better. He simply loves us to get optimistic. 1942 irrrniTATAihi iTfift'etit On Successful Offensive in Pacific Portrait of a ' f' As U. S. Aid to Australia Grows; President's 'Victory Plan' Depends Thursday, March 26, NEPHI. UTAH S. rtil3' si Head of the brain trust of the TJ. S. navy Is Rear Admiral Frederick J. Home. Right-han- d man to Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chie- f. Horne is in charge of the naval operations staff in the new navy set-up. RUSSIANS: Clamp Doivn 'CAISSONS ROLL ALONG IN A NEW TEMPO AS I SIT AT THE WINDOW of the room in which I write and watch "the caissons go rolling along" at some 40 miles an hour, it causes me to think of the changed tempo of war since the days in the 90s when I was engaged in and knew something of soldiering. In those days and. In fact on through much of World War I, the caissons went rolling along at about four miles per hour, the speed of a team when being urged by a husky "mule skinner." In those days the cannoneers rode the caissons with iron rimmed wheels and took all the jolts of the War in highways and battlefields. those days was a slow, leisurely operation that could be bloody when one really got into it but you could not get in or out so quickly. The doughboys walked, and their speed was not more than 10 miles a day. An enemy 100 miles away could not reasonably be expected to The Russians, having carried out their continued offensive during the coldest of the winter, had clamped down on several important points, including Kharkov and Vyamza, and attack within less than 10 days, and claimed that 200,000 German troops that allowed time for preparation. were trapped in the latter area. walked and Yes, the The Germans also, the Reds had carried his doughboy on his back. equipment were steadily giving Aside from the field and staff offiasserted, ground in the Kharkov region, cers, about the only things that endubbed the Pittsburgh of Russia. joyed the luxury of transportation There also had been considerable other than shank's mares were the favorable military activity in the company pots and pans in which district of Smolensk, which for a were cooked the beans, the sow belly time, rurnor had it had been Hit- and coffee, which, together with ler's personal headquarters. hardtack, was what the commissary In the meantime the Russians had provided. taken over the suburbs of Kharkov DEATH EVERYWHERE and had started what they described SETTING-U- P EXERCISES were as the fiercest sort of house to house not prescribed for troops on camfighting. The soldier got all the exerIn each of these encounters the paign. cise he could take care of without Russians had been able to mass any of a prescribed kind. He did d troops in superior num- not need a or a crooner to bers over the Germans, and in the put him to lullaby at night He serdom sleep assector Russia had Staraya they waited for '"taps" but was asleep serted that the Germans were re- at the earliest opportunity, and fusing to yield, and were gradually awakened only to cuss the bugler being exterminated. for blowing reveille. Even in the southwest, where Hit Washington, Napoleon, Wellington, ler was supposed to have ordered a Bismarck, Grant Lee, Pershing, the Russian ma Foch and Haig commanded slow archine was still moving ahead, Mos mies as compared with the speed of cow had reported. today. In those old days you looked for death only on the ground. You SUICIDE: would get behind a shield, but you did not also have to get under one. Confirmed Today death comes on the ground, A roundabout method of confirmfrom beneath the ground and from ing the suicide of General Homma the skies. in the Philippines by the hara-kir- i As I watch the caissons go rolling method was discovered by Carlos on rubber tires at 40 miles along a Chilean Barry, newspaper man an hour, I realize the speed of war in stationed Tokyo. today and the need of youth to He sent a dispatch to the news maintain that speed. I do not ques which in El Chileno he said paper tion the worthiness of our cause. I the suicide of "General Masaharu do question the necessity of war in Homma for failure to destroy the the necessity of I general; American and Filipino defense destruction question as a means of attempt forces had been confirmed." ing to settle disputes. He did not say that Tokyo con But at soldier age I saw glory firmed it but added: "The confirmation came through and romance and adventure in the doughthe fact that his successor General tramp, tramp, tramp of the in the clatter of the iron-sho- d Tomoyuki Yamashita was announced boy, wheels of the caissons, in the poundofficially." ing of hoofs of the cavalry horses. This, under the rules of the SamuThe young men of today see the rai, can have only one meaning. same things In the roll of the rubber-tire- d Homma would not have been permitwheels of the great guns and ted to live through this disgrace. trucks in which they ride, in the He must, according to the code, reclank of the tanks and the whirr of tire to his room and retire himseU the airplane propellers. We can be with a sword. thankful that when we must fight- -as in this case we must we have LOTTERY: youth that sees these things In the same way their fathers, grandNumber Three saw fathers and selective service Washington's heads, aided and abetted by draft them In days that are gone. The caissons are rolling along to boards from coast to coast swung eventual victory because of the valinto the task of classifying and calling up 9,000,000 men, drawn in the or of our American youth. e e third draft lottery. The word had gone out that not AN AMERICAN LEADER all would be drawn for military AND A SOD HOUSE IN THE EARLY 1890s sod houses service, but that many might be were not unusual on the plains of drafted into defense industry. western Nebraska. were They In the nine millions of men behouses dirt with walla dirt floors, 4 tween the age limits were many of the older men, more settled the and dirt ceilings. In one such house a man child was heads of businesses and owners of born of a mother. I cannot property, and their reaction to the tell you his pioneer name, for to do so would draft had been just as enthusiastic as had that of the younger men in be breaking a confidence. Today be is one of America's leading econothe previous groups. mists, occupying an important place In this lottery, as in those preIn American life. vious, there had been some small At the age of six be began attendtwo numbers turned errors, having ing school for five months each year. up missing. 6.342 and 2,069, and one His' school was a affair, being duplicated, 2.885. presided over by a young woman, who taught only the three R's. He wanted knowledge and he purchased MIM'.EI.I.ANY:it tor himself, working bis way through college and majoring in ecoIn order to improve nomics that be t ght find out what Washington: made America tick. He improved the war spirit of the people generally. President Roosevelt had said that the opportunity America offered, he would like to see more military and today is making every possible to 'maintain that opportunity parades. "It is time to wave the effort for America's boys and girls the flag," the President said. American way of life. Moscow: The Russian press dise e missed with one paragraph the news SIXTY MILES AN HOUR and that General MacArthur had been will never miss made supreme commander in Aus- burn them up! We the rubber until our tires wear out tralia. Buy Defense Bonds Montevideo: Street rioting followed the announcement that an DEBTS. BORROWING, Axis submarine had sunk a ship of AND BANKRUPTCY ON DECEMBER 15. 1941, the fed-erUruguayan registry. government debt was $56,731,-000.00Boulder City, Nev.: Forest rang, On December 12, the feders were searching for two "swarthy eral government's gold borrowings men" who had fired on a soldier an obligation of the government-amoun- ted scoutmaster and his troop tjf Boy to $20,551,000,000. The a out hike." for Scouts, of the local and San Franri-M'All machinery was bonded indebtedness in progress for the moving of 80.000 state governments of all stales was 20.248.000 000. That adds up to Japanese from the Coast to interior were hunters havpoints Bargain To that will be added new bonds ing field days In Chinatown, fi the 10 for war expenses, amounting to move. 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Of course ammonia and alcohol solutions are Just as effective but you will find the kerosene solution the least expensive. - In a magazine column recently on "How to Keep Your Home," the author said that a bed la a private home should be made In one minute and n seconds. At the Newhouse, the maid spends a great deal longer than that. Ws have found that too much care cannot be taken in making the bed Just right A few more minutes taken in making the bed is time well spent when we consider the several hours that are spent thers each night. fifty-seve- al 0. o: mm |