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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHL UTAH Future Pilots mmm For Axis Yar Criminals President Hopes for Punishment by Process Of Law for Perpetrators of Crimes i, By BAUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 II Street, N.W., denced in the last war and has been a part of all wars. Washington, This week I was talking with WiIt was press and radio conference day at the White House. We were lliam Bird, a former foreign correcrowded around the big desk in the spondent who is a keen student of executive office. It was hot. The human nature and who spent some President was seated at his desk, time with an organization in France, coatless, in a white shirt and black in the early days of the present war, called the "groupes francs." These tie. He was leaning over a typeconsisted of about two dozen men, written statement before him, reading it carefully, puffing out his divided into squads of six. Each cheeks and then blowing out slowly, squad was quartered in a single baras many people do when they are rack room, and each was completely autonomous. The members of concentrating. It happened to be a newsful day the squad had no contact with the and the answers to the reporters' rest of the battalion, or even with questions and the explanations of the members of other similar squads, except in the planning and two long statements filled columns in the papers which you read the execution of operations involving more than one squad. They did not next day. The first announcement, the one even attend the company mess, but cooked their meals on the barrack which he was reading over to self when we came in, is the one room stove. "You know," Bird explained to which I want to speak about the e warning to the Axis perpetrators of me, "what gives zest to acts of atrocity against the civilian hunting is the element of danger to the huntsman. Some men will travpeoples of the occupied countries. el half way around the world for the Brutal though the theme was, ominous though the warning, I was thrill of risking their lives in battle suddenly struck by the feeling that with a tiger or an elephant. "The same kind of man gets an here, in the midst of hatred and slaughter, was an effort to maintain even bigger thrill from war, bethe spirit of decency and humanity, cause man is a deadlier foe than the things we are really fighting for. any beast. The Commandos and The whole intent of the warning was the Rangers are made up largely of to assure justice even for the ene- men who thrive on mortal danger." my. America was committing it- The Personnel self to the principle that the Axis "One of the 'groupes francs which with its policy of making the innoI came to know," Bird went on, cent suffer for another's offense included: such as the shooting of hostages A champion racing driver. would be punished, not by blind The son of a as brutal as the crime it manufacturer who, until the war would avenge, but by due process of law. Gestapo and military off- came along, was often in the faicials after the war would be tried in mous "salon prive" at Deauville, a court in the country where the where fortunes changed hands crimes were committed. nightly on the turn of a card. A Montmartre hoodlum who had Vengeance? done time for stabbing a rival in a As the President was explaining fight. A bookkeeper from Lyons. this, a reporter asked him if he A farm boy from Normandy. thought the people in the occupied A garage mechanic. countries would wait for a trial. Would they not take the law into They had no tastes in common extheir own hands? Another asked the cept a taste for risking their lives. President if he had heard the sen: In peace time scarcely any two of tence said to be circulating in the then! would have spoken to each occupied countries "give us a other. But in war they were boon week."' companions, and each was ready to That, the President said, was ex- die for the others. "War to them was simply the actly what be hoped would not happen that criminals would be punsport in the world." ished after fair trials. He pointed to the recent trials of the Nazi sabo- Chinese Jujitsu Expert teurs in Washington as an example Trains American Officers of this nation's insistence on the So far the Japanese strategy, the due process of law. of the little fellow against strategy to It seemed gratifying, me, that we were setting out now in the midst the big one, has been to hit his opof bloodshed and hatred, to plan ponent when he isn't looking. And that philosophy goes back a curbs against violation on our part of the very things for which we are long way with Japan. Back to the art of jujitsu. Some say that this fighting. One man, familiar with military is an indigenous Japanese institulaw and usage, pointed out to me tion, dating from Seventh century that when and if perpetrators of Nippon. My friend Joseph Chiang these crimes are tried, the defense has another story. Chiang is a Chiis sure to be that the individual off- nese newspaper man in Washington icer cannot be held to account for and he says that jujitsu is Chinese. merely executing the orders of his "The Japanese copied our language. superiors. If General X, for exam- They copied jujitsu too," he says. According to Chiang it was used ple, is arraigned for shooting innoBuddhist cent hostages in Paris, he will an- first by the peaceful swer that he was merely obeying in- monks to defend themselves and structions from his superiors in Ber- their monasteries against bandits. It is primarily an art of defense allin. "Legally," my friend said, "that though it can make the aggressor excuse will not wash. Military law break his own neck if the jujitsuist D. C. big-gam- ven-gean- multi-millionai- re they need only visit one of the schools where the ATCA courses already have been introduced. There these youngsters can be seen tackling the fundamental Pre-Flig- ht problems of aviation with an eagerness that is surprising. They build their own model planes Nation to Get Jump Over to scale, following specifications proby the army and navy. These Axis by Readying Students vided planes perform a useful function in the classes on spotting, where For Future Aviation Career ATCA members learn how to distinguish one type from another at a It's an ironical twist of fate casual glance and from any angle. New Style School Arguments. that the most The visitor will see these boys change in our modern educaplane detional system was set in mo- arguing over a problem instress and where sign discussing tion by a war. strain will affect the craft as As September rolls around, pubthough the chart on the wall were a lic, private and parochial high real bomber and they were going to schools through- take off in it themselves. out the nation In classes on communications the will have radicalpupils will be taking down the dots altered their ly and dashes of the Morse code with curricula to in- the same seal they might put into clude instruction remembering the signals for an in train- play on the football field. ing under the aus- In on engine structure, in classes 4 A- inlAB in algebra, in whatever physics, Training Corps of America, workthese future fliers now are studying ing in conjunction with the Civil Aer- in their courses, the same onautics administration and the U. S. office of education. TRYING HARD Educators themselves readily adOn the drill field, where memmit that the war, with the attention bers of ATCA units learn marchit has focused on aviation, must be ing formations and take calliscredited in large measure for the thenics to build them up physispeed and efficiency with which cally, these lads show the same ATCA's program has been launched, earnest attitude. They're trythe although program's peacetime ing hard every minute, so that objectives are considered equally sometime they can earn the important. right to fly a plane for the With New Interest. Studying army or navy, or become professional fliers in civilian life. Regardless of cause, this September some 500,000 boys who voluntarily are enrolling in ATCA units degree of youthful eagerness is apwill be studying algebra, geometry, physics, and other subjects with a parent everywhere. This attribute of the Air Training new interest. They'll be enthusiastic about subjects they once con- courses in secondary schools, as much as the fact that the new studsidered "dry" because these studies have called for a complete overies will be taught in terms of aviahauling of the curricula, is the tion. reason that educators are quick to During five, or more, hours each that the system of week, ATCA members will study acknowledge is noing through, the most teaching in such subjects training as air navigation, communications, radical change it ever has seen. And They Like It! aerodynamics, meteorology, safety, and the structure and design of enThey find it adding to their own enthusiasm to be met with such a gines. And if there are those who ready response on the part of their When "x plus y" can be doubt the enthusiasm with which pupils. something to do with a pursuit plane boys are taking these courses, Training le pre-flig- V, pre-flig- pre-flig- ht unquestioning obedience the command given is honorable. No soldier can be required to perform an act that is contrary to honor. "If the accused general's conscience revolts against executing people who have committed no offense, he in entitled to refuse to obey the order. Even a German court martial would uphold him in that refuE.il. "The German gauieiters who laughter Jews and Poles and Czechs cannot take refuge in the plea that their crimes were commanded 'cy Hitler or Himrr.ler." isn't careful e, d 62,-00- Model Builder Longfellow. Washington, O. C. S. GENERAL IN ACTION Maj. Gen. Charles L. Scott, U. S, TJ; V j 'fo" L k. mm ma III I"' i This ATCA student is building his own model plane from army and navy specifications. Such practice gives youth throughout the U. S. first-han-d knowledge of planes they hope some day to fly. of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. WHY GIRLS LEAVE WASHINGTON Many young girls who left homu to come to Washington are now leaving Washington to go home. They thought it would be thrilling to work in the capital in wartime, but they So night is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to mau. When Duly whispers low, "Thou must,' The youth replies, " ran." EMERSON. Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. General Cialdini. No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. Burtor. NEW EFFECTIVE HAY FEVER RELIEF Hay fever, which annually causes more sneezes, more inflamed noses and more red, streaming eyes than any other scourge, may have its final big fling this September, all because a Pennsylvania electrical engineer was served a dish of corn meal mush which was entirely too salty. The engineer, sneezing, and with all other hay fever manifestations, stopped at a hotel where he was served a dish of mush which he considered sending back as it was much too salty. Finally he ate it, however; the hay fever attack lessened, ultimately ceased. Next day he had three meals, all oversalted, and experienced his most comfortable time in years in the "hay fever season." His analytical mind quickly grasped the possibility that the snline substance in his food was resDonsible for his relief. About this time. Dr. E. E. a graduate of Columbia University, met the engineer, made notes, and when he returned to his home, began experiments. Today Dr. Selleck declares he, has found a certain means of relief for hay fever and is supported in his contention by other medical experts, and a nationally knovni chemical manufacturing concern, are sadly disillusioned. Clerks and junior stenographers simply don't make enough money to live on. A labor department survey indicates that a single pers-.imust earn $1,470 a year to live in k, and "a times b" has something to Washington, at present rent and do with increasing the already terfood costs. Yet there are two Civil rific speed of a giant bomber, it's Service ratings below that figure something which both teacher and $1,260 and $1,440, for clerical ami pupil find exciting. stenographic jobs. ATCA members present a dashing Young girls like Washington at appearance in their uniforms espefirst. It's something to write home cially designed for the corps. Jack- about living right in sight of the ets, shirts and trousers of the uni- great Capitol dome, passing in front the Hollings-Smit- h form are all in a matching tone of of the White House every day. Company, at Ties are navy blue and Orangeburg, New York, has takgray-bluwears off when the en the thrill But over the silver-tonemaking remedy, which buttons on the jacket are them 12 hours a day in is called Nakamo Bell. boss The caps have a piping of a warworks office, when their Describing the experiments. get bright red and the same color ap- tired standing in crowded buses, and Dr. Selleck said, "After I was on in the sure I had found a means of single stripe pears again when they can't sleep comfortably and cuff. The red white four in a room. each sleeve quickly the relieving hay fever ATCA insignia is attached to the upthrough in chloride group, I Booth in Norah the most practical tested it personnel expert per left sleeve. OPA, knows these cases hy the way I knew. I held a three day inthe it has spirit Considering score. A from Nashville, Tenn.. ciia'c, to which many hay fever jected into the system of teaching, came to girl responded, from ages: last Jm,e, sufferersfrom Washington 10 to 60 years. Each-persoit is not surprising that ATCA ranging to Now she the thrilled eyebrows. was given two tabletswith. courses are finding a ready welis leaving. a lnle water. Some relief came come in the schools. "I don't know what's the matter to all within ten minutes. Reports As for the army and navy on these cases during the ensuwith me," she told Miss Booth. "I'm they, too, are all for it. They all jumpy. I guess you call it ing weeks showed practically a have long recognized that the nerves. It was fun being here at coinDlete cessationof symptoms." Adv. best professional flier is the one first, but you havu to work so hard who has been trained from and pay so much for a room! I'm youth. They realize the importired of worrying whether I'll have tance of the program in filling Constipation! Yhy NoT enough money next week for a new the lack that has existed for of stockings. I'm going home!" pair Getand Keep"ReguIar? providing training in the fundamentals of aviation. HOW TO WRITE TO SOLDIERS One of the commonest causes Objectives of ATCA have been enof constipation Is simply this: The army is far from satisfied dorsed by Robert A. Lovett, assistModern diets, superrenned, too with letthe its way (photo often give us too little "bulk ant secretary of war for air, and by to service is overseas lood." ter) In such cases, dosing with troops Robert Hinckley, assistant secretary cathartics and purges gives only of commerce and founder of the going. Despite the big advantages the trouble temporary relief in the speed and transof comes back again and again. Citizens Pilot training program. well as as mission guarantee to The more against way lasting relief Sponsoring the work of the ATCA Is to get at the underlying cause the general public hasn't taken are some of the outstanding men loss, correct and it. to it. and women in the country, includYou can do this bv entlng 'This is partly due to a misunderKELLOGGS ing Bernard Baruch, James A. Fardally. This delicious, toasty cereal supstanding of the technique of the servley, Alfred E. Smith, Jeremiah T. ice to needed the the fact and that "bulk." It acts plies partly Mahoney, chairman of the Pan- - blanks have pleasantly; works principally on been available only at C. R. American games committee; the contents of the colon, helpoffices. However, the ing you to have easy and normal Smith, ex president of American air- larger is post to extend the servelimination. In many cases, eat-iarmy planning lines; Robert Hinckley, assistant ice soon to N regularly and post office and secretary of commerce, and Mrs. rural route inevery drinking plenty of water brings the country. At the Colin Kelly, widow of the American freedom from constipalasting same time, an educational program tion. Made by Kellogg's In Battle air hero. Creek. If your condition Is not will be launched. ATCA. of the That's story benefited by this simple treatis it much to Actually, simpler It's one of those things created ment, see your doctor. a Vimail than send letter the by during war which is not necessarily a part of war. It will, educators regular way, since you don't have to feel confident, live long after the bother with envelope or stamps. All Higher Destiny We are born for a higher deswar is over, and the ways of peace you do is write your message, with returned again, because it is inex- your address and that of the receivtiny than earth. E. G. E. Lytton, on a blank form, and fold and tricably tied up with aviation and er, aviation itself has many long and seal it. The sealed form goes to a of embarkation, where it is put vigorous years stretching ahead of port through a machine and photoit. To relier painful rillni . btmv roll. graphed on a sms'J micro-filtni or UadwuiM on bottom of feet Later the roll is printed and deand remove caUou get the thin, aootblng. cushioning pads. veloped in a reproducing station at its overseas destination. The photo-lettis then in an envelope for combat duty. It has materially and delivered. placed Since the filming and reduced training casualties. developing are performed mechanNot all of these boys, of ically in the dark, senders of course, become pilots. One of are assured absolute privacy. the Important benefits of this Also, they get faster delivery. The training la the fact that it bearmy gives priority to Into the "screens" the parboys d in cargo cause of a saving In or ticular Job air ground crew space. The army postal service esfor which they are best qualified. timates that 22 sacks of Furthermore, It gives them are equal to 37 sacks of regular the essential psychological conmail. However, the chief consideraditioning that tbeir own Job, tion to senders is that is whatever it may be. Is guaranteed against loss. The origiis preserved for refllm-innal ; mi i,' i Naturally, an important part of the in case a mail cargo is lost at program is a carefully worked out sea. course of training 5o promote physical fitness, to make the youth of M E R RY-GRO UN D America strong, hardened and ready C Tennessee mountaineer Cordell for the tasks that lie ahead. Members of the Air Training Hull never forgets. Recently he rea job to a prominent New Convnint to buinM, shopping mnd Corps of America will also receive fused basic training in the manual of arms York publisher because some years Ititolrot. s Doncing nightly to the he had a deago signed petition ilic of nationally known ore h, trot. and military drill, and will be state the that manding department schooled in the highest ideals of disOriM MICfO KfSTAUKANT stop sending scrap iron to Japan. SINOlf MOM $4 cipline and patriotism. Good losC sport Evie Robert, after 0OUIII (TWIN IEDS) MOM f ATCA's Role In the War Effort. ing a $1,000 bet that Senator Jim SUITES MOM $10 In undertaking to set up Mead would get the Democratic dltcovnt lor mon of nV Spoclal 25 In the nation's high nomination for governor of New squadrons rmd forcot and ttisir lamllla. Air schools, the Training Corps of York, telegraphed triumphant Jim A ncrolly lower Kal of rata for America Is its work Farley: "You sure were long term otewpancy. rightand with that of other organizations In- how!" terested in the progress of aviation. C U. S. army officials suggest that The Civil Aeronautics administraheadlines on American participation with and edution, working through in the Dieppe Commando raid were cators who have a thorough groundOur part was Insignifmisleading. in aviation and aviation probing icant. lems, have done a splendid job of C. Various American citizens of Jappreparing practical, easily under- anese descent are urging a second stood textbooks in the various phases front now and volunteering for from of training. line duty. n Sel-lec- e. d. n? ALL-BRA- The theory of flight becomes a real thing to this student as, stick 'd band, he controls the model plane while the wind tunnel, extreme left, whips a stiff breeze in the "flier's" face. This is another part of the ATCA training throughout the nation. This course given In the lad some day may become an expert aviator in the V. S. army or navy. ht CALLOUSES End of War Will Mark Aviation's Golden Age same America invented the airplane yet the greatest single threat to our security today is the plane itself. Having created the means by which man could fly, America failed miserably to recognize th significance of its own invention. It remained for other nations to grasp the airplane's enormous possibilities to visualize it as a gigantic instrument of peace and war. It remained for other nations to sense the possibilities of training cot just a small segment but all and its youth, to b air-wis- e. F kuunu N What the expert does with his victim after he has incapacitated him, Mr. Nitobe does not say, any more than Mr. Kurusu mentioned what the Mikado was going to do "after Pearl Harbor." Whether the Japanese stole the idea from the Chinese or invented it themselves they have made good Commandos Find Zest use of it. 'It has long been part of In Hit-Ru- n Raids the training of the Japanese police The remark of one of the yrung and is now a part of the training of members of the Rar.ccrs who took the Japanese soldier. No wonder. Americans have been caught napin the raid on Dieppe, that in The Jap fighter part weiijhg an average But, if a determined group ping. the midst of the fighting they sud- of 12G pounds. He may be of American citizens have their way, equipped denly realized they "wire having with fanatic zeal but it takes more this will not, cannot, happen again. fun," fell with a ithock on many than that to meet a t AmeriThese determined citizens have unitcivilian ears. But that sentiment, can or Britisher in a ed to form the Air Training Corps as it is, explains the phi- combat. Something must be added of America. terrifying of the raider. It is not a to put him on eijual terms with a losophy Wings for America at Peace. discovery of this war. It as evi heftier adversary. No informed person will deny that the end of this war will mark the true beginning of the Aviation age. 15 H I E S There will be new markets to be hy ISnuhhane won, new lands to be developed. And in this post-wa- r race for trade, The Office of Information said Over a recent typical week-ena major role. In aviation will America was only "ankle deep" in 3,000 pies were sold at the Washing- America and play throughout the world, the war. Out of the 7,000 Ameriton Union station restaurant. the highways of commerce will be cans lost so far in the war, 3,000 In the air. In transportation, in a were civilians. In the British emClasses In spotting enemy planes thousand as yet undrearned-o- f facets are now being held in America for of our daily life, men trained in aviapire (white only) 130.000 dead. civilians; native troops chiefly civilians as well as military. You tion will be the leaders of tomorrow. Indian, 13.000, 10,000 civilians in- don't have to teach the kids in towns And the nation which molds these cluded. Some two million Chinese, near airplane plants to leaders will be life If a leader. spot the difsoldiers have been killed; between ferent types of American . In training Its youth for aviation, planes five and ten million civilians. They know them all. America is assuring its sons a rich hand-to-han- d mum by il pre-flig- "The feat consists of clutching or striking such part of the enemy's body as will make him numb or incapable of resistance. Its object is not to kill but to incapacitate for the time being." That is a definition by Inanzo in "Bushido, the Soul of JUDGE ourselves yAEwhat we feel capable kipnnV.nnnnnMn um tank expert just back from Libya, Is not talking about it in his lectures to American armored forces, but he did more than almost anyone to n Anv.iic.li r9 7rn PnmmpJ'a efkm tanks when they broke through the British lines and started their mad dash to Alexandria. General Scott was in Egypt helping out with the American tanks which had been sent to the British. And he happened to be in the thick of it during that part of Rommel's attack when the British seemed most disorganized. So Scott, though an American, jumped into the battle, actually took over temporary command, and orAll the ganized a counter-attacdetails can't be told yet, but when they are it will be a great story. far-reachi- sub-lime- st only when future flying. of iiiimmI 500,000 High School Youths Will Receive Against Subdued Nations. requires Gems of Thought Students at Albert Leonard high school, New "Rochelle, N. Y., being instructed by teach er Frederick L. Lobdell on plane stresses and strain in an' aerodynamics class. They are all ATCA students with visions U. S. Backs Fair Trials A'eus Thursday, September 10, 1942 opportunity, and is at the time, taking steps to insure its own future. Wings for America at War. Every decent American hopes that boys now in high school will never have to go to war. But every thinking American realizes that they may have U fight before this war la won. And make no mistake about It, this war will be won by trained, professional airmen over that "last battlefield," wherever It may be. These airmen, grim though the idea Is, must be young. For the air warfare of today, with Its 40,000-foaltitudes and 400 m.p.h. speeds, demands youth-trai- ned youth. No one else has a fighting chance. This is the lesson brought us from England, a lesson dearly learned by the heroic RAF In the BatUe of Britain. England itself has already profited from this lesson, and has set up its own Air Training corps under the air ministry. So far, England's Air Training corps has graduated 75,000 boys Into the Royal Air force. Helpful to Canadians. The Idea, transplanted to Canada, has resulted in the training of 26,000 boys and has not yet hit its full stride. It is already considered an Indispensable part of the Royal Canadian Air force training program. It Is saving the best part of a year precious time when time is In preparing airmen ot er iEiaaiii one-thir- m g, pre-flig- pre-flig- i l';.)!;! nv til '! h 3Zz&Uiilr ill 'hi |